History A-Level
Industrial labour supply and recruitment
What Industrial labour supply and recruitment means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Industrial labour supply and recruitment
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Early cotton mills needed many hands, but free workers were scarce, mobile and resistant to factory discipline, so Greg recruited pauper apprentices through the Poor Law.
Topics that use Industrial labour supply and recruitment
- Paper 3, Option 34.1: Industrialisation and social change in Britain, 1759–1928: forging a new society - 2 Samuel Greg: cotton and cottages, 1784–1816 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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