Read the third chapter in Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton (“The Wages of War Capitalism”, pp.56-82) and write a short, narrative essay

• What are all the factors that according to Beckert permitted Samuel Gregg to launch what would later be known as the Industrial Revolution?• How does Beckert question other historians’ explanations for the origins of the Industrial Revolutions? Hint: see page 62.• How did English cotton manufacturers deal with the problem of English high wages? See pp.64 and following.• What are Beckert’s explanations for why Chinese and other non-English cotton manufacturers DID NOT first launch industrial production of cotton textiles? See pp.69 (bottom) and following.• How does the Reform Act of 1832 speak to the rising political power of the industrialists and to the inclusive nature of English political institutions since the Glorious Revolution? See pp.77 and following.• In what sense was English industrial cotton textile production in its early days (up to around 1800) still a modest affair by world standards? See p.80.• What sort of connection did the emerging, new industrial capitalism still have with war capitalism until 1860? See pp.80-82.