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... Parliament , the Government was in reality in the hands of a landed aristocracy more or less subject to royal dictates , while the mass of the people , “ bowed by the weight of centuries , " were obedient to the heritage of laws ...
... Parliament , the Government was in reality in the hands of a landed aristocracy more or less subject to royal dictates , while the mass of the people , “ bowed by the weight of centuries , " were obedient to the heritage of laws ...
Page 57
... Parliament , and unhindered by public opinion , entered upon an era of full freedom of contract and unrestricted competition , and the results which followed upon the mad rush for wealth supply materials for the pessimist and cynic who ...
... Parliament , and unhindered by public opinion , entered upon an era of full freedom of contract and unrestricted competition , and the results which followed upon the mad rush for wealth supply materials for the pessimist and cynic who ...
Page 60
... Parliamentary report of 1833 classifies the sources of unhealthiness among the workers as follows - Confinement ; heated , close atmosphere ; admission of foreign matter into the lungs ; constant upright position ; wet feet and person ...
... Parliamentary report of 1833 classifies the sources of unhealthiness among the workers as follows - Confinement ; heated , close atmosphere ; admission of foreign matter into the lungs ; constant upright position ; wet feet and person ...
Page 66
... Parliament to prohibit corn except at famine prices , and shifted the burden of taxation , as was not unnatural , upon other shoulders . " During these sad years in the history of English toil , the political economists were busy with ...
... Parliament to prohibit corn except at famine prices , and shifted the burden of taxation , as was not unnatural , upon other shoulders . " During these sad years in the history of English toil , the political economists were busy with ...
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... Parliamentary aid ( if other methods appear not likely to effect the purpose ) to establish a general system of laws for the wise , humane , and equal government of all such works . " As a result of the agitation on the condition of ...
... Parliamentary aid ( if other methods appear not likely to effect the purpose ) to establish a general system of laws for the wise , humane , and equal government of all such works . " As a result of the agitation on the condition of ...
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing combination compelled competition cotton Democracy disease duction economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation industrial problem Industrial Revolution inventors iron knowledge labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions mediæval medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary Newcastle-on-Tyne operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom profit progress railway rapidly raw materials recognised reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen sanitary 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