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Page xvii
... society as it exists , without going into the historic and economic causes of the maladjustments pointed out . The publication of Mr. Hobson's book on " The Social Problem , " shortly after this little work appeared , leads me to ...
... society as it exists , without going into the historic and economic causes of the maladjustments pointed out . The publication of Mr. Hobson's book on " The Social Problem , " shortly after this little work appeared , leads me to ...
Page xix
... society upon a democratic basis will be brought about by a political and social movement depending for its numerical strength upon the working classes . CHARLES BEARD . MANCHESTER , January 22 , 1902 . The Industrial Revolution CHAPTER ...
... society upon a democratic basis will be brought about by a political and social movement depending for its numerical strength upon the working classes . CHARLES BEARD . MANCHESTER , January 22 , 1902 . The Industrial Revolution CHAPTER ...
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... society . Man , who through the long centuries had toiled with his hands , aided by crude implements , to wrest a pitiful subsistence from Nature , suddenly discovered that the blind forces against which he had been struggling could be ...
... society . Man , who through the long centuries had toiled with his hands , aided by crude implements , to wrest a pitiful subsistence from Nature , suddenly discovered that the blind forces against which he had been struggling could be ...
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... society upon the basis of the new achievements . This process of reconstruction is now going on , and corporate society is the hope of the future . From the standpoint of achievement of human brain and hand , the mechanical revolution ...
... society upon the basis of the new achievements . This process of reconstruction is now going on , and corporate society is the hope of the future . From the standpoint of achievement of human brain and hand , the mechanical revolution ...
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... society . After the mercantile capitalists , who derived most of their wealth from foreign trade , came the capitalists who amassed great fortunes from home manufacturing industries . This latter class , which increased rapidly in ...
... society . After the mercantile capitalists , who derived most of their wealth from foreign trade , came the capitalists who amassed great fortunes from home manufacturing industries . This latter class , which increased rapidly in ...
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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