Consists of the twelve Select committee Reports from this period. These include reports from both Houses of Parliament on foreign trade, manufactures, trading monopolies, the vital timber, silk and wine trades, pilotage, quarantine regulations and London port duties. The reports themselves are valuable analyses of the state of British commerce and guides to the development of parliamentary policy.
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The IUP Textiles set presents the reports of successive Select Committees appointed to investigate several aspects of the textile industry from 1800 to 1850. The early reports deal with old laws and statues which were hampering the changeover from cottage to factory manufacture. The underlying principle of the reports was that undue restriction on industrial expansion should be removed. In the later reports recommendations on job mobility, emigration and education, which were to be important afterwards, were tentatively made.
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Documents the fairly continuous improvement in conditions of factory work which took place during the century. From the first decisive attempt to regulate factory employment in 1833 to the end of the century these papers comprise Royal Commission and Select Committee reports which were important dictators of policy, factory inspector’s report which describe the lot of the factory worker from 1835 onwards and in the later part of the century departmental committee reports.
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The most important development in the field of applied art in nineteenth-century Britain was the establishment in 1835 of a Select Committee to investigate the "best means of extending a knowledge of the arts and of the principles of design among the people (especially the manufacturing population) of the country". In 1840 a Select Committee presented a clear and definite recommendation on the copyright of designs - "that it is expedient to extend the Copyright of Designs". This report (IUP volume Design 2) deals with designs for the textile industry and received evidence from leading designers, artists and manufacturers.
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Contains the famous Royal Commission Report of 1842 on the employment and condition of children in mines and manufactories (IUP Children’s Employment vols 6, 7 and 8).
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