By Jonathan Thayer Lincoln
THE FACTORY.
THE CITY OF THE DINNER-PAIL.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston and New York
THE FACTORY
THE FACTORY
BY
JONATHAN THAYER LINCOLN
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1912
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY JONATHAN THAYER LINCOLN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published January 1912
TO MY FATHER
NOTE
This essay is based upon a course of lecturesdelivered before the Amos Tuck School ofAdministration and Finance associated withDartmouth College. These lectures were subsequentlyprinted in The Mediator, a magazinepublished in Cleveland, Ohio, and devoted toestablishing a better social understanding betweenthe man who buys and the man who sellslabor.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
In preparing the historical part of this essay I haveconsulted many authorities, and in particular I havemade free use of the following works.
DEFOE, Daniel
A plan for the English Commerce, London, 1728.
BAINES, Edward
History of the Cotton Manufacture in GreatBritain. London, 1835.
GUEST, Richard
A Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture.Manchester, 1823.
The Theory and Practice of Cotton Spinning. Glasgow,1833.
URE, Andrew, M.D.
The Philosophy of Manufactures. London, 1835.
BABBAGE, Charles
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.London, 1822.
CARLYLE, Thomas
Essay on Chartism.
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TAYLOR, Richard Whately Cooke-
The Modern Factory System. London, 1891.
ABRAM, Annie
Social England in the Fifteenth Century. London,1909.
Among the many articles printed in the periodicalpress the following from the Quarterly Review areespecially helpful.
Vol. XLI, 1829. Condition of the EnglishPeasantry.
Vol. LVII, 1836. The Factory System.
Vol. LXVII, 1841. Inf