12 sentences with 'mills'

Example sentences and phrases with the word mills and other words derived from it.

• « Finally, beginning in earnest in the 11th and 12th centuries, wind and water mills became increasingly common for grinding grain into usable flour. »
• « Although peasants resented having to pay for access to the mills (which were generally controlled by landowners, often nobles or the Church), the huge increase in productivity meant that much more food was generally available. »
• « Thus, mills remained profitable for peasants, and milled flour became the norm in most of Europe by the end of the 12th century. »
• « The English poet William Blake referred to the factories as "satanic mills". »
• « The Factories Act of 1833 limited child labour in cotton mills, the Miners Act of 1842 prohibited the employment of girls and women (and boys under the age of 10) in the underground, and in 1847 a Ten Hours Act limited the working hours of women and children. »
• « Working class women, as noted above, worked alongside or even in place of men in factories, mines and mills, almost always doing the same or similar work for lower pay. »
• « The infernal mills, the starving workers, and the misery and distress of the factory towns were all part of 19th century European capitalism. Whatever could contain those factors, mainly in the form of concessions to workers and state intervention in the economy, had not happened on a large scale when Marx was writing - trade unions themselves were banned in most states until the middle of the century. »
• « In the early decades of the 16th century, the Spanish built sugar mills on the island. »
• « Industrialised manufacturing began in New England, where wealthy merchants built water-powered textile mills (and factory towns to support them) along the rivers of the Northeast. »
• « In addition to the mechanisation and centralisation of work in the mills, the specialised and repetitive tasks assigned to wage labourers replaced the previous artisanal modes of production performed by craftsmen at home. »
• « The operations of these mills irrevocably changed the nature of work by de-catalysing tasks, breaking down the production process into its most basic and elementary parts. »
• « As a commodity, cotton had the advantage of being easily stored and transported. There was already a demand for it in Britain's industrial textile mills and, in time, a steady flow of slave-grown American cotton would also supply northern textile mills. »
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