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... legislation ) , but the factory system threatened to sap the very existence of our people , because those who could have helped it ( both employers and employed ) at that time were too greedy , too ignorant , and too callous to ...
... legislation ) , but the factory system threatened to sap the very existence of our people , because those who could have helped it ( both employers and employed ) at that time were too greedy , too ignorant , and too callous to ...
Page 20
... legislative enactments . On the eve of the Industrial Revolution , though the king had been rendered nominally subservient to Parliament , the Government was in reality in the hands of a landed aristocracy more or less subject to royal ...
... legislative enactments . On the eve of the Industrial Revolution , though the king had been rendered nominally subservient to Parliament , the Government was in reality in the hands of a landed aristocracy more or less subject to royal ...
Page 46
... legislation and unrestricted by public opinion . This collecting of vast armies of labourers under the dominion of one capitalist broke off the old relations of master and man , and society gradually divided into two classes 46 THE ...
... legislation and unrestricted by public opinion . This collecting of vast armies of labourers under the dominion of one capitalist broke off the old relations of master and man , and society gradually divided into two classes 46 THE ...
Page 56
... to be a passive policeman , according to the new theories of the sphere of legislative action , while workers and employers were to be allowed full freedom in selling and buying . Freedom 56 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... to be a passive policeman , according to the new theories of the sphere of legislative action , while workers and employers were to be allowed full freedom in selling and buying . Freedom 56 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
Page 61
... legislation and enlightened public opinion laid any restrictions upon the new factory system . Sec . 7. - The Population and the New Towns . There were great changes brought about in the condition of the workers when they were placed ...
... legislation and enlightened public opinion laid any restrictions upon the new factory system . Sec . 7. - The Population and the New Towns . There were great changes brought about in the condition of the workers when they were placed ...
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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