Question

how was cotton industries grown in England?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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The cotton industry was certainly
rapidly transformed. The traditional
textile industries in
Europe prior to 1700 used linen and
wool as raw materials. Sheets and
undershirts were made of
linen, outer garments of wool. Cotton
was an exotic and expensive material
that did not grow in
western Europe. The cotton industry
in Lancashire developed in the early .eighteenth century as
a result of trade with Egypt and India.
It was still a minor industry in 1760,
using only about 2.6 6million pounds of cotton in 1760 (as
compared to 90 million pounds of
wool consumed in the woolen
industry). Adam Smith in the Wealth
of Nations published in 1776 hardly
notices the industry, even though he
was writing in Glasgow, an early
center of the cotton industry. But raw
cotton consumption rose dramatically...The cost of manufacturing 1 lb. of
cotton yarn in 1784 was equivalent to
1 week’s wage for
an unskilled manual laborer. By 1832
it was equivalent to less than 3 hours
wages. Cotton yard
could be produced so cheaply in
British factories that it displaced hand
spun yard even in
countries like India where the wages
of workers were one sixth of those in
Britain