The document begins by addressing the jealousy of foreign powers and the feelings of the community.\u00a0 Ure uses the word \u201cpre-eminent\u201d to describe the factory wealth of England to other foreign powers.\u00a0 The word \u201cpre-eminent\u201d which is defined as, surpassing all others; very distinguished in some way, implies that other countries are jealous of England because of their success in their factory production.\u00a0 However, Ure also points out that their community does not care for this new factory wealth as much as foreign powers envy it.\u00a0 In fact, these community members view this pre-eminence as the source of revolution and evils against the people.<\/p>\n
Ure then claims that this physio-mechanical science has bestowed many blessings on society.\u00a0 He admits the claims that this same science has allowed the rich capitalists to harass the poor and increase the speed of the work of their employees.\u00a0 However, he claims that the conditions of the factory are actually much better than those of the people who work for themselves.\u00a0 Ure states that those in the factory have hardly anything to do.\u00a0 They do not have any muscle and are paid guaranteed wages.\u00a0 While those who work for themselves, have to work tirelessly and take many small breaks on account of how boring their task is, which adds up to a large amount of time not spent working.\u00a0 Ure believes that this person will earn relatively low wages and will destroy their body.\u00a0 Ure even goes so far as to claim that scientific improvement in these factories is philanthropic.\u00a0 He believes that because these advances keep workers from wearing out their bodies and their minds from fatigue, it is basically charity.<\/p>\n
Ure then begins to discuss the origin of the factory system.\u00a0 He claims that the silk mills brought to England from Italian states had elements of the factory system.\u00a0 However, England added to this system by making its machines more elementary.\u00a0 Again, Ure discusses the first water frames for spinning cotton that were built at Cromford.\u00a0 They had not been able to realize then the future that this would promise for England.\u00a0 The ability to power mechanics through the use of the forces of nature replaced the need for the physical effort of workers.\u00a0 Industry would no longer be hindered by the ability of the workers to produce using only their own muscular power.<\/p>\n
Ure continues to explain the beneficial impact the modern factory has on factory owners and the quality of production.\u00a0 The idea of the factory system is to replace hand skill with mechanics.\u00a0 Labor had been the biggest cost of production factory owners had faced.\u00a0 But, with the introduction of machines, these workers become invaluable and will be replaced by a worker who will only oversee the production of the machine.\u00a0 This Ure claims, allows factory owners to replace men with women and children and trained artisans with ordinary laborers.\u00a0 He even adds the statement of a factory owner who claims that by replacing these workers he would save a lot of money in wages.<\/p>\n
Ure ends by evaluating the benefits of steam-engines.\u00a0 These steam-engines create jobs for those who man them and the people who produce the fuel for them.\u00a0 The use of steam power instead of horses allows more agricultural land be utilized for the production of food instead of hay.\u00a0 Finally, this new way of travel allows for goods from foreign lands to be brought back to England.<\/p>\n
In this piece, Ure touches on the pre-eminence of their factory system, the better life for workers physio-mechanical science produces, the origins of the factory system, and the benefits of the factory system to factory owners and trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The document begins by addressing the jealousy of foreign powers and the feelings of the community.\u00a0 Ure uses the word \u201cpre-eminent\u201d to describe the factory wealth of England to other foreign powers.\u00a0 The word \u201cpre-eminent\u201d which is defined as, surpassing Continue reading