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... clothes , not " fashionably cut " shoddy ; good news , not party lies and foolish flattery and idle or malicious gossip ; real information ( which need not be cheap , and cannot be easy , for knowledge is not an easy thing to get , but ...
... clothes , not " fashionably cut " shoddy ; good news , not party lies and foolish flattery and idle or malicious gossip ; real information ( which need not be cheap , and cannot be easy , for knowledge is not an easy thing to get , but ...
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... of life - food , clothing , and the like - by the labour of his hands , almost unaided by machinery . The flail , the primitive plough , the spinning wheel , the hand loom ENGLAND IN 1760 3 TURE, POLITICS THE MECHANICAL.
... of life - food , clothing , and the like - by the labour of his hands , almost unaided by machinery . The flail , the primitive plough , the spinning wheel , the hand loom ENGLAND IN 1760 3 TURE, POLITICS THE MECHANICAL.
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... clothing abundant , and the regular wages could be supplemented with earnings from spinning , weaving , and lace - making . Communities were isolated through lack of facilities for communication , life was simple , and education ...
... clothing abundant , and the regular wages could be supplemented with earnings from spinning , weaving , and lace - making . Communities were isolated through lack of facilities for communication , life was simple , and education ...
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... clothing , shelter , and implements . " Each village had its mill , generally the property of the lord of the manor ; almost every house had its oven and brewing cauldron . Women spun wool into coarse cloth ; men tanned their own ...
... clothing , shelter , and implements . " Each village had its mill , generally the property of the lord of the manor ; almost every house had its oven and brewing cauldron . Women spun wool into coarse cloth ; men tanned their own ...
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... clothing trade . The long wool thus passed into the hand of the combers , and , having been brought back to them in the combed state , was again carefully packed and strapped on the back 1 of the sturdy horse , to be taken into the 14 ...
... clothing trade . The long wool thus passed into the hand of the combers , and , having been brought back to them in the combed state , was again carefully packed and strapped on the back 1 of the sturdy horse , to be taken into the 14 ...
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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