Excerpt from Adventures in Socialism: New Lanark Establishment and Community
The closing years of the eighteenth century marked an important epoch in the industrial history of Scotland. At that period hand labour in manufacture began to give way to machinery, an event which has led to economic and social changes of a far-reaching nature.
For previous generations the staple industry of the country had been the manufacture of woollen goods by means of the rock and reel and the hand loom. The wool was obtained from the fleeces Of the scantily fed sheep, spun into yarn, and after wards woven into blankets, plaidings, and hodden gray. The stuffs so manufactured were, however, coarse in texture, and could not compete with the finer quality of the English fabrics. Neither could Scotland, on any pretext, trade with the English colonies. The outlet for Scottish goods, therefore, was confined to the home markets.
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