1. Life Before and After the Industrial Revolution
... only. As for the lower class, aka, the poor people were highly illiterate – considering there were no public schools- and could not afford products of high quality. In 1733, the demand for cotton cloth became very high, yet the production was incredibly slow, the crisis had to be solved in order to boost the English economy. The answer came from John Kay, who invented the flying shuttle which cut the weaving time in two. Although ... many workers didn't accept the fact that they were the first to be replaced by machines, they eventually accepted ... ...
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