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Page xiii
... productions of any kind . One of the most useful things a teacher can do is to help beginners to the right books . There is no use , but much weary , useless toil , in the reading of the wrong books . Every scholar knows the fearful ...
... productions of any kind . One of the most useful things a teacher can do is to help beginners to the right books . There is no use , but much weary , useless toil , in the reading of the wrong books . Every scholar knows the fearful ...
Page xiv
... produce useful things , beautiful things , necessary things ; but the end of life is not merely work , nor what people look for in exchange for work - riches . Riches without health or security , or the knowledge of how to use them ...
... produce useful things , beautiful things , necessary things ; but the end of life is not merely work , nor what people look for in exchange for work - riches . Riches without health or security , or the knowledge of how to use them ...
Page xvii
... produce . " In defence of my position , I may say that in Chapter V. I only atteinpted an analysis of industrial ... production and the individual form of appropriation and exchange , " I contend that this system wastes more wealth ...
... produce . " In defence of my position , I may say that in Chapter V. I only atteinpted an analysis of industrial ... production and the individual form of appropriation and exchange , " I contend that this system wastes more wealth ...
Page xviii
... 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 Steel Company , stated that his concern saved $ 500,000 yearly in " cross freights ...
... 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 Steel Company , stated that his concern saved $ 500,000 yearly in " cross freights ...
Page xix
... production of wealth ceases ; want and even starvation come to thousands ; separa- tions , divorces , and prostitution increase in alarming proportions and all this happens because the machinery of the industrial system has been thrown ...
... production of wealth ceases ; want and even starvation come to thousands ; separa- tions , divorces , and prostitution increase in alarming proportions and all this happens because the machinery of the industrial system has been thrown ...
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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