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Page ix
... 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 consumers of these bad articles , quite as baneful ...
... 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 consumers of these bad articles , quite as baneful ...
Page xviii
... Machine - Makers discharged 30 per cent . of the em- bloyés as unnecessary to the production of all the machines demanded in the market , and effected a saving of $ 780,000 annually in working expenses . Mr. Gates , of the Wire and ...
... Machine - Makers discharged 30 per cent . of the em- bloyés as unnecessary to the production of all the machines demanded in the market , and effected a saving of $ 780,000 annually in working expenses . Mr. Gates , of the Wire and ...
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... machine - a producer of things , a commodity to be bought and sold . His character , his powers of love and joy and admiration , his desire for freedom from misery , pain , and wretchedness , were made secondary to the production of ...
... machine - a producer of things , a commodity to be bought and sold . His character , his powers of love and joy and admiration , his desire for freedom from misery , pain , and wretchedness , were made secondary to the production of ...
Page 9
... machines were invented . Eden , writing about 1797 , states that the plough used in many parts of England differed but little in de- scription from the old Roman plough , and that agricul- tural machinery of all others had received the ...
... machines were invented . Eden , writing about 1797 , states that the plough used in many parts of England differed but little in de- scription from the old Roman plough , and that agricul- tural machinery of all others had received the ...
Page 11
... machines of manifest utility , simple in their construction , and all moved by water . " The age of invention was yet to come , and , comparatively speaking , work had to be done almost without the aid of power - driven , mechanical ...
... machines of manifest utility , simple in their construction , and all moved by water . " The age of invention was yet to come , and , comparatively speaking , work had to be done almost without the aid of power - driven , mechanical ...
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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