The Spinning Jenny and the Industrial Revolution: A Reappraisal
Ugo Gragnolati, Daniele Moschella, Emanuele Pugliese
Industrial Revolution, choice of technique, spinning jenny
N00, N01, N70
Was the spinning jenny profitable only in England? No. The present
work finds that the jenny was profitable also in France. Such result
contrasts recent findings on the topic by revising basic computations
on the profitability of the spinning jenny.
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