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Page xvii
... estimated that between producer and consumer $ 40,000,000 were annually lost mostly in competitive attempts to secure trade . Upon the combination of the competitors in the distilling business 300 travelling salesmen were discharged ...
... estimated that between producer and consumer $ 40,000,000 were annually lost mostly in competitive attempts to secure trade . Upon the combination of the competitors in the distilling business 300 travelling salesmen were discharged ...
Page xviii
... estimated that the latter saved $ 6,000,000 daily by imiting advertising and concentrating industries . The recent American Combination of Laundry Machine - Makers discharged 30 per cent . of the em- ployés as unnecessary to the ...
... estimated that the latter saved $ 6,000,000 daily by imiting advertising and concentrating industries . The recent American Combination of Laundry Machine - Makers discharged 30 per cent . of the em- ployés as unnecessary to the ...
Page 4
... estimated that 3,600,000 , out of a population of 8,500,000 , lived in the country , and that their income was £ 66,000,000 , out of a total national income of £ 119,500,000 . While these figures are not exact , they show that ...
... estimated that 3,600,000 , out of a population of 8,500,000 , lived in the country , and that their income was £ 66,000,000 , out of a total national income of £ 119,500,000 . While these figures are not exact , they show that ...
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Charles Austin Beard. actually in cultivation at this time . Gregory King estimated it at about 22,000,000 acres , or ... estimates may be far from accurate , there is sufficient evidence to warrant a conclusion that there were at the ...
Charles Austin Beard. actually in cultivation at this time . Gregory King estimated it at about 22,000,000 acres , or ... estimates may be far from accurate , there is sufficient evidence to warrant a conclusion that there were at the ...
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... estimate , employed , in all its branches , about 200,000 persons . The chief centre of production was in Sussex , where ten furnaces yielded an annual output of 1400 tons . Five miles from Newcastle - on - Tyne were iron works which ...
... estimate , employed , in all its branches , about 200,000 persons . The chief centre of production was in Sussex , where ten furnaces yielded an annual output of 1400 tons . Five miles from Newcastle - on - Tyne were iron works which ...
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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