The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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Page ix
... profits by it , and makes the principle or the piece of wisdom or fact a part of our mental store , ready for use when the proper times comes . A man may be book - learned and very ignorant . Mr. Beard's book should make his readers ...
... profits by it , and makes the principle or the piece of wisdom or fact a part of our mental store , ready for use when the proper times comes . A man may be book - learned and very ignorant . Mr. Beard's book should make his readers ...
Page 16
... attendant disadvantages , and allowed them to be , to a certain extent , their own masters . Though the workers had little chance of becoming rich : by thrift , industry , and especially by profits from 16 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... attendant disadvantages , and allowed them to be , to a certain extent , their own masters . Though the workers had little chance of becoming rich : by thrift , industry , and especially by profits from 16 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
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Charles Beard. by thrift , industry , and especially by profits from the Jabour of others , they had still less chance of ending their days in the poorhouse . Sec . 13. - The System of Transportation . In these days of rapid transit it ...
Charles Beard. by thrift , industry , and especially by profits from the Jabour of others , they had still less chance of ending their days in the poorhouse . Sec . 13. - The System of Transportation . In these days of rapid transit it ...
Page 47
... profit much by the saving . However , the new order has apparently come to stay , notwithstanding the . rhapsodies of some of our reforming poets , who sing of the picturesque days of the hand wheel and loom . The ills which have stung ...
... profit much by the saving . However , the new order has apparently come to stay , notwithstanding the . rhapsodies of some of our reforming poets , who sing of the picturesque days of the hand wheel and loom . The ills which have stung ...
Page 61
... profit and amusement , but now factories are at work in those districts in which they resided , and poverty , wretchedness , and discontent are the inmates of every dwelling . " These bits gathered from various sources give glimpses of ...
... profit and amusement , but now factories are at work in those districts in which they resided , and poverty , wretchedness , and discontent are the inmates of every dwelling . " These bits gathered from various sources give glimpses of ...
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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