469:"Salt's motives in building Saltaire remain obscure. They seem to have been a mixture of sound economics, Christian duty, and a desire to have effective control over his workforce. There were economic reasons for moving out of Bradford, and the village did provide him with an amenable, handpicked workforce. Yet Salt was deeply religious and sincerely believed that, by creating an environment where people could lead healthy, virtuous, godly lives, he was doing God's work. Perhaps, also, diffident and inarticulate as he was, the village may have been a way of demonstrating the extent of his wealth and power. Lastly, he may also have seen it as a means of establishing an industrial dynasty to match the landed estates of his Bradford contemporaries. However, Saltaire provided no real solution to the relationship between employer and worker. Its small size, healthy site, and comparative isolation provided an escape rather than an answer to the problems of urban industrial society".
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President of the Bradford
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Bradford's textile industry – Bright Spark / Innovators and those behind them. This Week: the British industrialist Salt (1803–1876)".
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cloth. Titus encouraged the Bradford spinners to use
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775:"Story of Saltaire Biographies Sir Titus Salt"
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670:Balgarnie, Robert; Barlo; Shaw, Dave (2003).
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