The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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Page vii
... machine- made ornaments are , however " horny - handed , " really " anti - social persons , " baneful to the community as far as their bad work goes ; more baneful , possibly , than the consumers of these bad articles , quite as baneful ...
... machine- made ornaments are , however " horny - handed , " really " anti - social persons , " baneful to the community as far as their bad work goes ; more baneful , possibly , than the consumers of these bad articles , quite as baneful ...
Page 3
... machine - a producer of things , a commodity to be bought and sold . His character , his powers of love and joy and admiration , his desire for freedom from misery , pain , and wretchedness , were made secondary to the production of ...
... machine - a producer of things , a commodity to be bought and sold . His character , his powers of love and joy and admiration , his desire for freedom from misery , pain , and wretchedness , were made secondary to the production of ...
Page 9
... machines were invented . Eden , writing about 1797 , states that the plough used in many parts of England differed but little in de- scription from the old Roman plough , and that agricuï- tural machinery of all others had received the ...
... machines were invented . Eden , writing about 1797 , states that the plough used in many parts of England differed but little in de- scription from the old Roman plough , and that agricuï- tural machinery of all others had received the ...
Page 11
... machines of manifest utility , simple in their construction , and all moved by water . " The age of invention was yet to come , and , comparatively speaking , work had to be done almost without the aid of power - driven , mechanical ...
... machines of manifest utility , simple in their construction , and all moved by water . " The age of invention was yet to come , and , comparatively speaking , work had to be done almost without the aid of power - driven , mechanical ...
Page 12
... machine and steam - power industry , because there are other conditions which lead to specialisation and large industrial organisation . These conditions have been aptly classified by Hobson under three heads : ( 1 ) Physical Aptitudes ...
... machine and steam - power industry , because there are other conditions which lead to specialisation and large industrial organisation . These conditions have been aptly classified by Hobson under three heads : ( 1 ) Physical Aptitudes ...
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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