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... ment about rich and poor , or class jealousy . " At the same time , I do not doubt that the reorganisation of industrial society upon a democratic basis will be brought about by a political and social movement depending for its ...
... ment about rich and poor , or class jealousy . " At the same time , I do not doubt that the reorganisation of industrial society upon a democratic basis will be brought about by a political and social movement depending for its ...
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... ment , which began in the Tudor age , also contributed to the destruction of the feudal organism . But by 1760 there had been no upheavals violent and far - reaching enough to affect the general character of the social hierarchy ...
... ment , which began in the Tudor age , also contributed to the destruction of the feudal organism . But by 1760 there had been no upheavals violent and far - reaching enough to affect the general character of the social hierarchy ...
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... ment of the iron industry , and revolutionising the methods of preparing the material necessary for the progress of mechanical invention . Enormous quantities of steel for harnessing the limitless drawing forces of Nature can now be ...
... ment of the iron industry , and revolutionising the methods of preparing the material necessary for the progress of mechanical invention . Enormous quantities of steel for harnessing the limitless drawing forces of Nature can now be ...
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... 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 necessary to give a few statistics . When machinery was introduced ...
... 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 necessary to give a few statistics . When machinery was introduced ...
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... ment , which is still going on with increasing rapidity , L known as the combination and organisation of capital . After the first flush of manufacturing prosperity under the new order had passed off , the great capitalists found ...
... ment , which is still going on with increasing rapidity , L known as the combination and organisation of capital . After the first flush of manufacturing prosperity under the new order had passed off , the great capitalists found ...
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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 mediƦval 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