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... mills . As soon as the children were in the hands of the mill proprietors , " they were simply at the mercy of their owners , nominally as apprentices , but in reality as mere slaves , who got no wages , and whom it was not worth while ...
... mills . As soon as the children were in the hands of the mill proprietors , " they were simply at the mercy of their owners , nominally as apprentices , but in reality as mere slaves , who got no wages , and whom it was not worth while ...
Page 68
... mill owners for wealth , which made secondary all other con- siderations . In addition to the many hindrances in the way of improving the lot of the workers , there were a number of incidents which aggravated the already terrible ...
... mill owners for wealth , which made secondary all other con- siderations . In addition to the many hindrances in the way of improving the lot of the workers , there were a number of incidents which aggravated the already terrible ...
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... mill owners and the dense ignorance of operatives , who had been taught to believe that a shortening of hours was inevitably accompanied by a fall in wages . Though the pauper slave market , so far as the cotton mills were concerned ...
... mill owners and the dense ignorance of operatives , who had been taught to believe that a shortening of hours was inevitably accompanied by a fall in wages . Though the pauper slave market , so far as the cotton mills were concerned ...
Page 73
... mill owners were considering the policy of applying to the Government for a remission of the tax on raw cotton . At a meeting of manufacturers , Owen's proposition for the abolition of the tax was enthusiastically supported ; but he ...
... mill owners were considering the policy of applying to the Government for a remission of the tax on raw cotton . At a meeting of manufacturers , Owen's proposition for the abolition of the tax was enthusiastically supported ; but he ...
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... mills . This Act met with a storm of opposition on the part of capitalists and mill owners , but it did not prevent the conviction of one out of every eleven of the mill owners for failure to observe its provisions . In 1842 , the em ...
... mills . This Act met with a storm of opposition on the part of capitalists and mill owners , but it did not prevent the conviction of one out of every eleven of the mill owners for failure to observe its provisions . In 1842 , the em ...
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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