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LECTURE 17


The Industrial Revolution (Part 2) 

1. The role of technology: invention vs. innovation 
2. The putting out system and worker control 
3. Cotton vs. wool 
4. The spinning bottleneck 
5. The weaving bottleneck 
6. The role of U.S. cotton 
7. U.S. Textile manufacturing