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... sanitary conditions , and filthy hovels . Men were forced rapidly into new relations , in which the old formulæ , maxims , and moralisings became useless and void . The old economic order and basis of life were swept away , and in the ...
... sanitary conditions , and filthy hovels . Men were forced rapidly into new relations , in which the old formulæ , maxims , and moralisings became useless and void . The old economic order and basis of life were swept away , and in the ...
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... sanitary arrangements . So wild was the rush for wealth that nothing was thought of save space enough to work the machines , and light enough to enable the operator to tend them . In these dingy buildings , choked with dust and worn ...
... sanitary arrangements . So wild was the rush for wealth that nothing was thought of save space enough to work the machines , and light enough to enable the operator to tend them . In these dingy buildings , choked with dust and worn ...
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... Sanitary arrangements were generally of the most indecent sort , and diseases and malformations were prevalent . The Parliamentary report of 1833 classifies the sources of unhealthiness among the workers as follows : -Confinement ...
... Sanitary arrangements were generally of the most indecent sort , and diseases and malformations were prevalent . The Parliamentary report of 1833 classifies the sources of unhealthiness among the workers as follows : -Confinement ...
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... sanitary science had made scarcely any advance by the beginning of this century , and consequently the in- dustrial towns were built up without decent sanitary provisions . Those who built the dens , miscalled cottages , " did not have ...
... sanitary science had made scarcely any advance by the beginning of this century , and consequently the in- dustrial towns were built up without decent sanitary provisions . Those who built the dens , miscalled cottages , " did not have ...
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... sanitary , social , and moral requirements for even a tolerable existence were not even heeded . The making of money seems to have been generally the aim of life ; while the making of healthy , noble , happy human beings was forgotten ...
... sanitary , social , and moral requirements for even a tolerable existence were not even heeded . The making of money seems to have been generally the aim of life ; while the making of healthy , noble , happy human beings was forgotten ...
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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