Resource created by Leeds Museums and Galleries | Leeds Industrial Museum.

This resource uses the life of cloth manufacturer Benjamin Gott (1762-1841) as a model for entrepreneurial skill and understanding. The development of his business is an example of the growth of the factory system during the Industrial Revolution. 

Curriculum Links

• KS4 Business Studies - Enterprise - Setting up a business
• KS3 Citizenship - the functions and uses of money and the importance and practice of budgeting and managing risk
• KS3 History - Industrial Change 1750-1900
  KS4 History - British Social and Economic History After 1750
• KS3-4 PHSE - a basic understanding of enterprise

Learning Objectives

• Knowledge of the ways in which enterprising businesses operate, (e.g. conditions of work and debates about rights and responsibilities)
• Understanding of the wider role of business, its responsibilities and resources
• Skills in problem-solving and relating the demands of business in 1800s Leeds to modern practice

 

Benjamin Gott