The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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Page vii
... waste to make . They do not please the eye ;. they merely puff up a silly and anti - social conceit . They are symbols of snobbery . The dreadful waste on sham art and bad ornament is bad and anti - pro- gressive . People who cheat ...
... waste to make . They do not please the eye ;. they merely puff up a silly and anti - social conceit . They are symbols of snobbery . The dreadful waste on sham art and bad ornament is bad and anti - pro- gressive . People who cheat ...
Page xi
... Waste of time is not only folly , but it is anti - progressive and means degen- eration , just as waste of money over bad or foolish things , or waste of work over ugly shams or false ornaments or dishonest productions of any kind . One ...
... Waste of time is not only folly , but it is anti - progressive and means degen- eration , just as waste of money over bad or foolish things , or waste of work over ugly shams or false ornaments or dishonest productions of any kind . One ...
Page 5
... waste . Though these estimates may be far from accurate , there is sufficient evidence to warrant a conclusion that there were at the close of the eighteenth century throughout England vast stretches of waste and unimproved land which ...
... waste . Though these estimates may be far from accurate , there is sufficient evidence to warrant a conclusion that there were at the close of the eighteenth century throughout England vast stretches of waste and unimproved land which ...
Page 7
... waste land about the village was also common pasture . The evils of this system were numerous ; but the most grievous may be summed up as follows :-( 1 ) Rotation or change of crops was almost impossible , as such action could only be ...
... waste land about the village was also common pasture . The evils of this system were numerous ; but the most grievous may be summed up as follows :-( 1 ) Rotation or change of crops was almost impossible , as such action could only be ...
Page 8
... waste of energy were absolutely impossible under the old system . The intensive agriculture added greatly to the output ; but it certainly did work hardship to the poor , who were cleared off the land to make room for the vast field ...
... waste of energy were absolutely impossible under the old system . The intensive agriculture added greatly to the output ; but it certainly did work hardship to the poor , who were cleared off the land to make room for the vast field ...
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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