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Page ix
... disease , and fire and water . Makers of useless machine- made ornaments are , however " horny - handed , " really " anti - social persons , " baneful to the community as far as their bad work goes ; more baneful , possibly , than the ...
... disease , and fire and water . Makers of useless machine- made ornaments are , however " horny - handed , " really " anti - social persons , " baneful to the community as far as their bad work goes ; more baneful , possibly , than the ...
Page xii
... Disease and crime can be tackled , and would be if we were in earnest . requires probably less effort to keep ourselves and our children healthy and out of the dock than to save money and leave it to fools , or buy an annuity , and it ...
... Disease and crime can be tackled , and would be if we were in earnest . requires probably less effort to keep ourselves and our children healthy and out of the dock than to save money and leave it to fools , or buy an annuity , and it ...
Page xv
... diseases , and walks resolutely in the service of her whom Defoe celebrated as that " Most Serene , Most Invincible , Most Illustrious Princess , REASON , " and whom , long before him , Solomon , and the son of Sirach , lauded as the ...
... diseases , and walks resolutely in the service of her whom Defoe celebrated as that " Most Serene , Most Invincible , Most Illustrious Princess , REASON , " and whom , long before him , Solomon , and the son of Sirach , lauded as the ...
Page 7
... made it impossible to prevent disease and to improve the breed . On the whole , the old communal system of agriculture , however picturesque and Arcadian it may appear to some people at this distant day ENGLAND IN 1760 7.
... made it impossible to prevent disease and to improve the breed . On the whole , the old communal system of agriculture , however picturesque and Arcadian it may appear to some people at this distant day ENGLAND IN 1760 7.
Page 44
... in every cottage , the people rustling in bran - new clothing , but with disease in their bones , no blood in their veins , and consumption in their lungs . " CHAPTER III THE BREAKING UP OF THE OLD ORDER Sec 44 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... in every cottage , the people rustling in bran - new clothing , but with disease in their bones , no blood in their veins , and consumption in their lungs . " CHAPTER III THE BREAKING UP OF THE OLD ORDER Sec 44 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
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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