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Page ix
... employ them . We " practical English " spend millions on machine - made ornaments , and so - called art which is not art . Every furniture - maker's shop is crowded with badly - made , badly - ornamented stuff which ought never to have ...
... employ them . We " practical English " spend millions on machine - made ornaments , and so - called art which is not art . Every furniture - maker's shop is crowded with badly - made , badly - ornamented stuff which ought never to have ...
Page x
... employ them better , to encourage them to behave better , and work better , and play better , and in their turn breed children who shall have better chances than themselves - not necessarily better chances to grow rich or to become idle ...
... employ them better , to encourage them to behave better , and work better , and play better , and in their turn breed children who shall have better chances than themselves - not necessarily better chances to grow rich or to become idle ...
Page xi
... employed ) at that time were too greedy , too ignorant , and too callous to understand the full evil they were doing , and the governing classes above them too foolish to see that the remedy must be swiftly applied . Ignorance and the ...
... employed ) at that time were too greedy , too ignorant , and too callous to understand the full evil they were doing , and the governing classes above them too foolish to see that the remedy must be swiftly applied . Ignorance and the ...
Page 4
... employed in manufacturing to any great extent , and a large number of 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 ...
... employed in manufacturing to any great extent , and a large number of 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 ...
Page 10
... employed out of it . A large portion of the cotton output , as to - day , went to America . However , the value of the cotton export amounted to only about one - twentieth of that of the woollen export . Next in importance to the ...
... employed out of it . A large portion of the cotton output , as to - day , went to America . However , the value of the cotton export amounted to only about one - twentieth of that of the woollen export . Next in importance to the ...
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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