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Page xvii
... capitalists , and money - lenders . The stat- istics are not at present forthcoming to prove this statement , but a few figures will illustrate my point . Mr. Edson Bradley , Vice - President of the Distilling Company of America ...
... capitalists , and money - lenders . The stat- istics are not at present forthcoming to prove this statement , but a few figures will illustrate my point . Mr. Edson Bradley , Vice - President of the Distilling Company of America ...
Page xix
... 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 antagonism existing in the ...
... 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 antagonism existing in the ...
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... Capitalism . Up to the eighteenth century , the land - owning class had been the dominating element in English ... capitalists , who derived most of their wealth from foreign trade , came the capitalists who amassed great fortunes from ...
... Capitalism . Up to the eighteenth century , the land - owning class had been the dominating element in English ... capitalists , who derived most of their wealth from foreign trade , came the capitalists who amassed great fortunes from ...
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... capitalist employer . At first we see , as in Yorkshire , the weaver furnishing himself with warp and weft , which he worked up in his own house and brought himself to market . By degrees he found it difficult to get yarn from the ...
... capitalist employer . At first we see , as in Yorkshire , the weaver furnishing himself with warp and weft , which he worked up in his own house and brought himself to market . By degrees he found it difficult to get yarn from the ...
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... capitalist factory system and its attendant disadvantages , and allowed them to be , to a certain extent , their own masters . Though the workers had little chance of becoming rich by thrift , industry , and especially by profits from ...
... capitalist factory system and its attendant disadvantages , and allowed them to be , to a certain extent , their own masters . Though the workers had little chance of becoming rich by thrift , industry , and especially by profits from ...
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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