New Lanark, the former cotton spinning village, is known as the pioneer of technological and social change in the Industrial Revolution. This new edition traces the community's history from its conception as a centre of mass production in 1785 to its present day standing as a World Heritage Site and beyond. Beginning with New Lanark's early development under its creator, the banker and textile entrepreneur, David Dale (1739-1806), this classic text looks at the social conditions of the mainly migrant workforce recruited to the village, and especially at the use of child labour from the...