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Page 21 - Conflicts of Capital and Labour Historically and Economically considered. Being a History and Review of the Trade Unions of Great Britain, showing their Origin, Progress, Constitution, and Objects, in their Political, Social, Economical, and Industrial Aspects.
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Page 28 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent...
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Page 31 - Re-view, and have been read by everyone interested in labour questions. There are, however, in the present volume, chapters on the connection between hours and wages, on the eight-hour movement of 1833, and on the present proposals for legislation, which are new, and which are up to the high level of the rest of the author's work.