The Factory-Owners, Landed Gentry and Middle Classes

Agenda Theme 6

6.1: How did the mill owners interact with the skilled builders of the factories and industrial infrastructure upon which their wealth depended?

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6.2: What contributions may the older landed families have made to the growth of industry, how did members of the landed and factory owners’ families interact and influence each other, and to what extent were the profits of the entrepreneurs employed to buy into the establishment?

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6.3: How did the members of the industrialists’ families interact and influence one another?

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6.4: To what extent were the factory owners guided and driven by entrepreneurialism, paternalism, ideology and pragmatism, what moulded their beliefs, and how did their ideology impact on their workers?

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6.5: What impacts did the religious beliefs and education of the factory-owners have upon their relationships with their employees, and how were their beliefs and values manifested in the industrial communities that they created for the mill workers and their families?

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6.6: To what extent was settlement design influenced by the factory owners and how did their wider interests impact on the landscape and on communities?

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6.7: Can we elucidate further the role of the factory owners in the development of statutory education and welfare provision?

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6.8: What roles were performed by women in the factory-owning families, and what was the impact on family dynamics and inter-generational change?

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6.9: Can we develop our understanding of the growth of the middle classes and their impact upon the Derwent Valley communities?

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