The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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Page vii
... employ them . We " practical English " spend millions on machine - made ornaments , and so - called art which is not art . Every furniture - maker's shop is crowded with badly - made , badly - ornamented stuff which ought never to have ...
... employ them . We " practical English " spend millions on machine - made ornaments , and so - called art which is not art . Every furniture - maker's shop is crowded with badly - made , badly - ornamented stuff which ought never to have ...
Page viii
... employ them better , to encourage them to behave better , and work better , and play better , and in their turn breed children who shall have better chances than themselves - not necessarily better chances to grow rich or to become idle ...
... employ them better , to encourage them to behave better , and work better , and play better , and in their turn breed children who shall have better chances than themselves - not necessarily better chances to grow rich or to become idle ...
Page ix
... employed ) at that time were too greedy , too ignorant , and too callous to understand t full evil they were doing , and the governing csses above them too foolish to see that the remedy must be swiftly applied . Ignorance and the ...
... employed ) at that time were too greedy , too ignorant , and too callous to understand t full evil they were doing , and the governing csses above them too foolish to see that the remedy must be swiftly applied . Ignorance and the ...
Page 4
... employed in manufacturing to any great extent , and a large number of workers was required to turn out a comparatively small product . We have no very reliable information as to the amount of land which was actually in cultivation at ...
... employed in manufacturing to any great extent , and a large number of workers was required to turn out a comparatively small product . We have no very reliable information as to the amount of land which was actually in cultivation at ...
Page 10
... 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 export . Next in importance to the ...
... 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 export . Next in importance to the ...
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acres Adam Smith agriculture amount appliances Arkwright became capital capitalists centres classes clothing Co-operative competition cotton Democracy disease duction economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English factory system forces freedom of contract French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power House of Lords human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation Industrial Revolution inventors iron knowledge labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture means mechanical inventions medieval methods mill owners moral nation natural necessary Newcastle-on-Tyne output Parliament persons political economists population power loom problem productive capacity progress railway rapidly raw materials recognised reform regulation restricted Robert Owen sanitary secure Sidney Webb social society spindles spinners spinning steam steam-engine struggle stuffs textile things tion to-day towns trade transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving wool