The Age of Industrialization Test - 6

Stapler was the person who sorts wool according to its fiber.

Women workers in Britain saw the Spinning Jenny as a threat for their livelihood. This was the reason, they began to attack the Spinning Jenny.

There were powerful trade and craft guilds in urban areas. These associations controlled competition and prices and prevented entry of a new player in the market. Because of them, it was difficult for new merchants to set business in towns. Hence, the merchants from towns in Europe began employing peasants and artisan within the villages; during seventeenth century.

The East India Company had consolidated its business by the mid-eighteenth century. This led to decline of the earlier centers of trade; like Surat.

The Company tried to eliminate the existing traders and brokers who were connected with the cloth trade. It tried to establish a more direct control on the weavers. A paid servant; called gomastha was appointed to supervise weavers, collect supplies, and examine the quality of cloth.

The British in India began exporting opium to China and took tea from China to England. Many Indians became junior players in this trade, providing finance, procuring supplies, and shipping consignments.

Tagore’s enterprises sank in the wider business crises of the 1840s.

From 1906, the export of Indian yarn to China declined since produce from Chinese and Japanese mills flooded the Chinese market.

Fly shuttle - It is a mechanical device used for weaving, moved by means of ropes and pullies. It places the horizontal threads.

Unable to modernise and compete with the US, Germany and Japan, the economy of Britain crumbled after the war.