<P> The Lancashire textile mills were major parts of the British industrial revolution . Their workers had poor working conditions : low wages , child labour , and 18 - hour work days . Richard Arkwright created a textile empire by building a factory system powered by water , which was occasionally raided by the Luddites , weavers put out of business by the mechanization of textile production . In the 1790s , James Watt 's steam power was applied to textile production , and by 1839 200,000 children worked in Manchester 's cotton mills . Karl Marx , who frequently visited Lancashire , may have been influenced by the conditions of workers in these mills in writing Das Kapital . </P>
<P> The Lancashire textile mills were major parts of the British industrial revolution . Their workers had poor working conditions : low wages , child labour , and 18 - hour work days . Richard Arkwright created a textile empire by building a factory system powered by water , which was occasionally raided by the Luddites , weavers put out of business by the mechanization of textile production . In the 1790s , James Watt 's steam power was applied to textile production , and by 1839 200,000 children worked in Manchester 's cotton mills . Karl Marx , who frequently visited Lancashire , may have been influenced by the conditions of workers in these mills in writing Das Kapital . </P>
where did cotton come from during the industrial revolution
where did cotton come from during the industrial revolution
Lancashire
Lancashire