Trade Structure in the Eighteenth Century England

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  • 18世紀のイギリスにおける産業構造 : 産業革命と農業革命との「同時併進性」の根拠をめぐって
  • 18セイキ ノ イギリス ニ オケル サンギョウ コウゾウ サンギョウ カクメイ ト ノウギョウ カクメイ ト ノ ドウジ ヘイシンセイ ノ コンキョ オ メグッテ

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Modern factory system originated in England in the last third of the eighteenth century. And its effects gave rise to such important results in the various phases of english economy. So the process has been called the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution in England, at the same time, was accompanied by agricultural revolution, and the coexistence of two "revolutions" accelerated the reform of english economic structure. The fact that two "revolutions" went hand in hand was exceptional one in the world history. We intended to study in this paper, why this exceptional case had taken place only in England. The results analyzed in this paper are, that division of social labor was diversified and production of consumer's goods remarkably developed in the first half of eighteenth century England, [development of cotton, linen, silk, hardware industries], and position of woollen and worsted industries declined of the importance in the national economy; that the starting point of economic circulation was "rent"or consumer's expenditure of landlord, in this meaning, agriculture was indispensable to economic growth in eighteenth century England, so government and parliament protected the agriculture in the same way as to another industries.; that being stimulated by development of consumer's goods industries, producer's good industries, exp. iron and steel industry also developed in the eve of the industrial revolution; that on these economic ground, the technical innovation in one of the manufacturing processes of cotton industry extended to another processes and another industries; and that by the introduction of Watt's "steem engine" in the manufacturing process of cotton industry was established the production of this industry, and producer's goods industries and consumer's goods industries were combined through production and by this circulation of commodities, and hence trade structure in England came to be pulled by accumulation in producer's goods industries.

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  • The Journal of Agrarian History

    The Journal of Agrarian History 11 (1), 37-56, 1968

    The Agrarian History Society (Renamed as The Political Economy and Economic History Society)

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