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... restrictions on apprentices and the Act of Settlement and general ignorance of opportunities open in various parts of the country , prevented that mobility of labour and capital which characterises modern industry . Sec . 14. - Politics ...
... restrictions on apprentices and the Act of Settlement and general ignorance of opportunities open in various parts of the country , prevented that mobility of labour and capital which characterises modern industry . Sec . 14. - Politics ...
Page 20
... restricted by legislative enactments . On the eve of the Industrial Revolution , though the king had been rendered nominally subservient to Parliament , the Government was in reality in the hands of a landed aristocracy more or less ...
... restricted by legislative enactments . On the eve of the Industrial Revolution , though the king had been rendered nominally subservient to Parliament , the Government was in reality in the hands of a landed aristocracy more or less ...
Page 47
... restriction and 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 ...
... restriction and 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 ...
Page 52
... restrictions . " Black and yellow men are organised under white overseers to compete with Western labour ; and so the ties of patriotism , racial and national , are being snapped asunder in the stress of profit - making . Capital is ...
... restrictions . " Black and yellow men are organised under white overseers to compete with Western labour ; and so the ties of patriotism , racial and national , are being snapped asunder in the stress of profit - making . Capital is ...
Page 55
... restrictions have been classified by Toynbee as follows : - I. - INTERNAL RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE . 1. The apprentice system requiring an apprenticeship of seven years from all who followed any trade which was in existence at the time the ...
... restrictions have been classified by Toynbee as follows : - I. - INTERNAL RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE . 1. The apprentice system requiring an apprenticeship of seven years from all who followed any trade which was in existence at the time the ...
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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