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Page xii
... important branches of knowledge . Such primers are useful ; they help one through the hard beginnings of the subjects ; they show one how to go on and master the thing by one's self . They give one admitted results , and show one the ...
... important branches of knowledge . Such primers are useful ; they help one through the hard beginnings of the subjects ; they show one how to go on and master the thing by one's self . They give one admitted results , and show one the ...
Page xvii
... important one , and I am glad that Mr. Hobson has given us his clear and vigorous contri- bution to the subject . While admitting that our present maladjustments are the outcome of the " social form of production and the individual form ...
... important one , and I am glad that Mr. Hobson has given us his clear and vigorous contri- bution to the subject . While admitting that our present maladjustments are the outcome of the " social form of production and the individual form ...
Page 9
... important , and composed more than one - fourth of the entire export . The industry was not concentrated in any one part of the country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry ...
... important , and composed more than one - fourth of the entire export . The industry was not concentrated in any one part of the country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry ...
Page 10
... importance to the woollen industry was the iron trade which , according to Hobson's estimate , employed , in all its branches , about 200,000 persons . The chief centre of production was in Sussex , where ten furnaces yielded an annual ...
... importance to the woollen industry was the iron trade which , according to Hobson's estimate , employed , in all its branches , about 200,000 persons . The chief centre of production was in Sussex , where ten furnaces yielded an annual ...
Page 11
... important industry - woollen manufacture - very primi- tive machinery was used . Spinning and weaving were , of course , done by hand , though a few improvements had been made in textile machinery . In 1730 , Wyatt had invented roller ...
... important industry - woollen manufacture - very primi- tive machinery was used . Spinning and weaving were , of course , done by hand , though a few improvements had been made in textile machinery . In 1730 , Wyatt had invented roller ...
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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