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Page 47
... regulation , and ushered in an age of unrestrained individualism in industry . It would be well to define here what is meant by capital . Without considering the fine metaphysical distinctions drawn by the classic political economists ...
... regulation , and ushered in an age of unrestrained individualism in industry . It would be well to define here what is meant by capital . Without considering the fine metaphysical distinctions drawn by the classic political economists ...
Page 54
... regulation was still recognised as expedient and desirable , and " though nominally free to move , both farmers and labourers were practically fettered to the manor by their ignorance and their poverty . " The ancient theory of State ...
... regulation was still recognised as expedient and desirable , and " though nominally free to move , both farmers and labourers were practically fettered to the manor by their ignorance and their poverty . " The ancient theory of State ...
Page 55
... Regulation was not the difficult task that it may appear to have been . But when the new order came , bringing its complex and intricate relationships , the old regulations hampered trade and industry on every hand . These restrictions ...
... Regulation was not the difficult task that it may appear to have been . But when the new order came , bringing its complex and intricate relationships , the old regulations hampered trade and industry on every hand . These restrictions ...
Page 56
... regulations , while the majority of the people were held in political bondage , and national policies were determined in the light of medieval doctrines . The wonderful expansion of trade and commerce which came with the great ...
... regulations , while the majority of the people were held in political bondage , and national policies were determined in the light of medieval doctrines . The wonderful expansion of trade and commerce which came with the great ...
Page 67
... organism and the new morality which centres around the idea had not yet dawned in the human mind . The old , medieval trade regulations , made for a 67 REVOLT AGAINST LAISSEZ FAIRE AND BEGINNING OF ORGANISATION PAGE vii.
... organism and the new morality which centres around the idea had not yet dawned in the human mind . The old , medieval trade regulations , made for a 67 REVOLT AGAINST LAISSEZ FAIRE AND BEGINNING OF ORGANISATION PAGE vii.
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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