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... reform move- ments . In the first place , individualism was rampant , and it was thought that " enlightened self - interest " would prove a panacea for the social diseases which came with the new industrial order ; ( 2 ) the excesses of ...
... reform move- ments . In the first place , individualism was rampant , and it was thought that " enlightened self - interest " would prove a panacea for the social diseases which came with the new industrial order ; ( 2 ) the excesses of ...
Page 72
... reforms owing to the selfishness of mill owners and the dense ignorance of operatives , who had been taught to believe that a shortening of hours was inevitably accompanied by a fall in wages . Though the pauper slave market , so far as ...
... reforms owing to the selfishness of mill owners and the dense ignorance of operatives , who had been taught to believe that a shortening of hours was inevitably accompanied by a fall in wages . Though the pauper slave market , so far as ...
Page 77
... reform by increasing the county members , giving representation to Leeds , Halifax , and Manchester , and striking off small boroughs from the list . This laudable reform was , however , cancelled when the Stuarts were restored to the ...
... reform by increasing the county members , giving representation to Leeds , Halifax , and Manchester , and striking off small boroughs from the list . This laudable reform was , however , cancelled when the Stuarts were restored to the ...
Page 78
... Reform Bill became law , and the tide set in towards Democracy . The conflict was not waged in Parliament alone , how- ever , for all over the country were groups of men determined not to abate their activities until the walls of ...
... Reform Bill became law , and the tide set in towards Democracy . The conflict was not waged in Parliament alone , how- ever , for all over the country were groups of men determined not to abate their activities until the walls of ...
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... Reform of 1832 took up , among other things , the thread of factory legislation which had been dropped in the struggles over the franchise . In 1833-34 , an important Act was passed which applied to all textile industries . The labour ...
... Reform of 1832 took up , among other things , the thread of factory legislation which had been dropped in the struggles over the franchise . In 1833-34 , an important Act was passed which applied to all textile industries . The labour ...
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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