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Page xvi
... secure better wages , better homes , and better con- ditions of life and labour generally . Recently we have heard the bitter cry of the impoverished clergy for higher salaries ; and were one - third of the parsons of England compelled ...
... secure better wages , better homes , and better con- ditions of life and labour generally . Recently we have heard the bitter cry of the impoverished clergy for higher salaries ; and were one - third of the parsons of England compelled ...
Page xvii
... secure trade . Upon the combination of the competitors in the distilling business 300 travelling salesmen were discharged , and 1 See also Robertson , " The Fallacy of Saving . " Sonnenschein . a saving of $ 1,000,000 effected in this ...
... secure trade . Upon the combination of the competitors in the distilling business 300 travelling salesmen were discharged , and 1 See also Robertson , " The Fallacy of Saving . " Sonnenschein . a saving of $ 1,000,000 effected in this ...
Page 39
... secure leisure for thought , invention , and intellectual develop- ment of every kind . " To show the expansion of trade and development of industry which produce the altera- tion in the structure of society described hereafter , it is ...
... secure leisure for thought , invention , and intellectual develop- ment of every kind . " To show the expansion of trade and development of industry which produce the altera- tion in the structure of society described hereafter , it is ...
Page 50
... secure tolerable regularity and safety , ( 3 ) Business men have learned from practical experi- ence the enormous expenditure incurred in unproductive warfare against each other.1 To save this waste , and thereby increase their profits ...
... secure tolerable regularity and safety , ( 3 ) Business men have learned from practical experi- ence the enormous expenditure incurred in unproductive warfare against each other.1 To save this waste , and thereby increase their profits ...
Page 55
... manufactures was restricted . 3. Navigation Acts aimed to secure to English seamen the control of the world's carrying trade . “ No goods of growth or manufacture in Asia , Africa , THE BREaking up OF THE OLD ORDER 55.
... manufactures was restricted . 3. Navigation Acts aimed to secure to English seamen the control of the world's carrying trade . “ No goods of growth or manufacture in Asia , Africa , THE BREaking up OF THE OLD ORDER 55.
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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