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... amount of wealth , and capitalists and workmen fighting each other waste a great deal in addition . For example , in 1897-98 , 25,636,001 work- ing days were lost in England through labour dis- putes arising out of the inevitable ...
... amount of wealth , and capitalists and workmen fighting each other waste a great deal in addition . For example , in 1897-98 , 25,636,001 work- ing days were lost in England through labour dis- putes arising out of the inevitable ...
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... workers was required to turn out a comparatively small product . We have no very reliable information as to the amount of land which was actually in cultivation at this time . Gregory King estimated THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... workers was required to turn out a comparatively small product . We have no very reliable information as to the amount of land which was actually in cultivation at this time . Gregory King estimated THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
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... amount of land was wasted by the balks and footpaths ; ( 3 ) common pasturage of the arable land made it impossible to grow winter crops ; ( 4 ) a vast deal of time was consumed by labourers " in travelling to many dispersed pieces of ...
... amount of land was wasted by the balks and footpaths ; ( 3 ) common pasturage of the arable land made it impossible to grow winter crops ; ( 4 ) a vast deal of time was consumed by labourers " in travelling to many dispersed pieces of ...
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... amount of stuff with the least expenditure and waste of energy were absolutely impossible under the old system . The intensive agriculture added greatly to the output ; but it certainly did work hardship to the poor , who were cleared ...
... amount of stuff with the least expenditure and waste of energy were absolutely impossible under the old system . The intensive agriculture added greatly to the output ; but it certainly did work hardship to the poor , who were cleared ...
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... the power utilised in their opera- tion so largely human , that there was little need for vast aggregations of capital . Though the amount of machinery which had been invented up to that time must 22 REVOLUTION AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS.
... the power utilised in their opera- tion so largely human , that there was little need for vast aggregations of capital . Though the amount of machinery which had been invented up to that time must 22 REVOLUTION AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS.
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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