The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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Page v
... things to them I have wished to say for some time . The classes that labour with their hands for weekly wages have now entrusted to them much of the power possessed by the Government of this country . The future of this country , and ...
... things to them I have wished to say for some time . The classes that labour with their hands for weekly wages have now entrusted to them much of the power possessed by the Government of this country . The future of this country , and ...
Page vi
... thing as they are remembered and attended to or not . It is worse and more unpleasant and more dangerous to be ruled by many fools than by one fool or a few fools . The tyranny of an ignorant and cowardly mob is a worse tyranny than the ...
... thing as they are remembered and attended to or not . It is worse and more unpleasant and more dangerous to be ruled by many fools than by one fool or a few fools . The tyranny of an ignorant and cowardly mob is a worse tyranny than the ...
Page vii
... thing at all . The hand of man , worked by the brain of man , is needed for that . A Windsor chair is an honest piece of work , acceptable ; the pieces of the wretched " drawing - room suite " the women are so proud to put in their ...
... thing at all . The hand of man , worked by the brain of man , is needed for that . A Windsor chair is an honest piece of work , acceptable ; the pieces of the wretched " drawing - room suite " the women are so proud to put in their ...
Page viii
... thing in many cases . The only good institutions are those that do good work ; the only good work done is that which produces good results , whether they be direct , as the ploughman's , or navvy's , or sailor's ; or indirect , as the ...
... thing in many cases . The only good institutions are those that do good work ; the only good work done is that which produces good results , whether they be direct , as the ploughman's , or navvy's , or sailor's ; or indirect , as the ...
Page ix
... times comes . A man may be book - learned and very ignorant . Mr. Beard's book should make his readers think ; that is what he wants them to do . The good teacher does not teach things , he tries to make his pupils teach PREFATORY NOTE ix.
... times comes . A man may be book - learned and very ignorant . Mr. Beard's book should make his readers think ; that is what he wants them to do . The good teacher does not teach things , he tries to make his pupils teach PREFATORY NOTE ix.
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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