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Page vii
... classes that labour with their hands for weekly wages have now entrusted to them much of the power possessed by the Government of this country . The future of this country , and the parts of the world dependent on it must be largely ...
... classes that labour with their hands for weekly wages have now entrusted to them much of the power possessed by the Government of this country . The future of this country , and the parts of the world dependent on it must be largely ...
Page xi
... classes above them too foolish to see that the remedy must be swiftly applied . Ignorance and the blindness caused by greed are deadly enemies that we can only meet by knowledge and by honesty . And it must be remembered , though it is ...
... classes above them too foolish to see that the remedy must be swiftly applied . Ignorance and the blindness caused by greed are deadly enemies that we can only meet by knowledge and by honesty . And it must be remembered , though it is ...
Page xix
... class jealousy . " At the same time , I do not doubt that the reorganisation of industrial society upon a democratic basis will be brought about by a political and social movement depending for its numerical strength upon the working ...
... class jealousy . " At the same time , I do not doubt that the reorganisation of industrial society upon a democratic basis will be brought about by a political and social movement depending for its numerical strength upon the working ...
Page 13
... class had been the dominating element in 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 ...
... class had been the dominating element in 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 ...
Page 19
... classes , from the king to the serf , took their places in society under arbitrary and hereditary contracts . The villein was bound to the soil ; the lord of the soil to his overlord or directly to the king . However , at no time can we ...
... classes , from the king to the serf , took their places in society under arbitrary and hereditary contracts . The villein was bound to the soil ; the lord of the soil to his overlord or directly to the king . However , at no time can we ...
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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