In the 1600's, cotton cloth imported from India had become popular and so British merchants organized a cotton industry for themselves. They developed a pulling out system in which raw cotton was brought to peasant families who spun it into cloth, and then skilled artisans finished and dyed the cloth. Under the putting out system, production was very slow and as the demand for cloth grew, inventors came up with ways to make the cotton industry more efficient. ... Along with dust and cotton fibers, grease, oil, gas and lime were perpetually being both ingested and inhaled by the children....

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"Hand spinners in India required 50,000 hours to produce 100 pounds of cotton yarn. ... The owners of new weaving mills continued to provide weavers with cotton thread and paid them for the finished product. ... India's industrial position was reversed as she became a supplier of raw cotton to Britain and an importer of machine-manufactured cotton textiles from Britain. Britain's new mills required unprecedented quantities of good quality cotton. ... The many physical dangers inherent in the early factories might include working in mills with temperatures of more than 80 degre...

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In textiles, the cotton gin was the first technological innovation followed by the flying shuttle in 1733 was one of the first major improvements for production. Also, the spinning Jenny, water-loom, and the separation of seeds from their fibers saved time Production increased greatly because the weaving and spinning of cotton and wool went faster. ...

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Manufacturing was often done in people's homes which were known as the cotton industry which used manual labor and hand tools/basic machines. ... At the time England was talented in the making of wool and cotton cloth. ... "The Japanese silk industry, an export staple, was already suffering from the advent of artificial silk-like fibers produced by Western chemical giants. ...

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Chapter 25: Transition to Modern America (the 1920s) Introduction Mass Production: the result was the creation of a New America, on e in which individualism was sacrificed to conformity as a part of the price to be paid for a new era of abundance. The 1920s, often seen as a time of escape and...

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