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... town , every village , every workshop , and every house be made healthier , be better managed , and the causes that check progress and security be done away with . We cannot afford to sit down and rub our bellies and think how fat we ...
... town , every village , every workshop , and every house be made healthier , be better managed , and the causes that check progress and security be done away with . We cannot afford to sit down and rub our bellies and think how fat we ...
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... towns , with their want of corporate life , their vile 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 ...
... towns , with their want of corporate life , their vile 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 ...
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... town , and 50,000 " manufacturers " employed out of it . A large portion of the cotton output , as to - day , went to America . However , the value of the cotton export amounted to only about one - twentieth of that of the woollen ...
... town , and 50,000 " manufacturers " employed out of it . A large portion of the cotton output , as to - day , went to America . However , the value of the cotton export amounted to only about one - twentieth of that of the woollen ...
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... towns which afforded markets certain specialised industries should arise . ( 3 ) Nature of Commodity . Where transportation was slow and inadequate , there was naturally little specialisation in heavy or perishable goods . Defoe , in ...
... towns which afforded markets certain specialised industries should arise . ( 3 ) Nature of Commodity . Where transportation was slow and inadequate , there was naturally little specialisation in heavy or perishable goods . Defoe , in ...
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... towns that had formerly been the exclusive markets , or , as they were called , ' staples ' of wool . The wool , safely received , was handed over to the sorters , who rigorously applied their gauge of required length of staple , and ...
... towns that had formerly been the exclusive markets , or , as they were called , ' staples ' of wool . The wool , safely received , was handed over to the sorters , who rigorously applied their gauge of required length of staple , and ...
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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