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... population of 8,500,000 , lived in the country , and that their income was £ 66,000,000 , out of a total national income of £ 119,500,000 . While these figures are not exact , they show that agriculturalists had more than their ...
... population of 8,500,000 , lived in the country , and that their income was £ 66,000,000 , out of a total national income of £ 119,500,000 . While these figures are not exact , they show that agriculturalists had more than their ...
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... population , character , intelligence , and social arrange- ments . Given a Shakespeare , and what dramas could he have written without the multitudinous traditions of civilised life - without the various experiences , which ...
... population , character , intelligence , and social arrange- ments . Given a Shakespeare , and what dramas could he have written without the multitudinous traditions of civilised life - without the various experiences , which ...
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... population , for this is the vital question -the one which throws clearest light on the condition of the workers at the present time , and upon the possibilities of increasing the amount of necessaries and comforts . Unfortunately ...
... population , for this is the vital question -the one which throws clearest light on the condition of the workers at the present time , and upon the possibilities of increasing the amount of necessaries and comforts . Unfortunately ...
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... population ? Since 1831 the population of the civilised world has not quite doubled , while since 1840 the power of steam alone has risen from 1,647,000 horse - power to more than 55,580,000 horse - power . Mulhall says : " In little ...
... population ? Since 1831 the population of the civilised world has not quite doubled , while since 1840 the power of steam alone has risen from 1,647,000 horse - power to more than 55,580,000 horse - power . Mulhall says : " In little ...
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... population has increased 44 per cent . since 1840 , while the output of food stuffs , grain and meat , has increased 57 per cent .; and yet Nordau tells us that " if the soil of Europe were tilled and man- aged like that of China , it ...
... population has increased 44 per cent . since 1840 , while the output of food stuffs , grain and meat , has increased 57 per cent .; and yet Nordau tells us that " if the soil of Europe were tilled and man- aged like that of China , it ...
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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