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Page ix
... English " spend millions on machine - made ornaments , and so - called art which is not art . Every furniture - maker's shop is crowded with badly - made , badly - ornamented stuff which ought never to have been made , and would never ...
... English " spend millions on machine - made ornaments , and so - called art which is not art . Every furniture - maker's shop is crowded with badly - made , badly - ornamented stuff which ought never to have been made , and would never ...
Page xi
... English people , never by any plague , or famine , or war , suffered such a deadly blow at its vitality as by the establishment of the factory system without the proper safeguards . Napoleon's wars crippled France ( though not as badly ...
... English people , never by any plague , or famine , or war , suffered such a deadly blow at its vitality as by the establishment of the factory system without the proper safeguards . Napoleon's wars crippled France ( though not as badly ...
Page 13
... English political and social life ; but from that time . onward their power began to wane . Alongside of the landed aristocracy arose a powerful mercantile class . whose wealth gave them influence and , finally , position in society ...
... English political and social life ; but from that time . onward their power began to wane . Alongside of the landed aristocracy arose a powerful mercantile class . whose wealth gave them influence and , finally , position in society ...
Page 21
... English industrial conditions at the eve of the Great Revolution . We have noted the prevalence of the primitive agricultural system , the use of crude mechanical contrivances , the comparative simplicity of the industrial structure ...
... English industrial conditions at the eve of the Great Revolution . We have noted the prevalence of the primitive agricultural system , the use of crude mechanical contrivances , the comparative simplicity of the industrial structure ...
Page 25
... English poet writes " And many yet adhere To the ancient distaff at the bosom fixed , Casting the whirling spindle as they walk At home , or in the sheep fold , or the mart , Alike the work proceeds . " The methods of weaving were quite ...
... English poet writes " And many yet adhere To the ancient distaff at the bosom fixed , Casting the whirling spindle as they walk At home , or in the sheep fold , or the mart , Alike the work proceeds . " The methods of weaving were quite ...
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing Co-operative combination compete competition cotton Democracy disease economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces freedom of contract French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation Industrial Revolution inventors iron labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom problem production profit progress railway rapidly raw materials reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen secure Sidney Webb social society spinning steam steam-engine struggle supply textile things tion to-day towns trade Trade Unionism transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving wool