The Modern Factory System: By R. Whately Cooke TaylorK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891 - 476 pages |
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... human probability the worthiest discussion of many social problems which even now , though in a new guise , con- front us might be found , not in the hasty , superficial , and often sordid literature of our own day . ' April , 1891 ...
... human probability the worthiest discussion of many social problems which even now , though in a new guise , con- front us might be found , not in the hasty , superficial , and often sordid literature of our own day . ' April , 1891 ...
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... human species , so presumptuous and so abandoned as to make the proposal we have just heard . " " I hold this project , " he continued , " to be totally subversive of the last remains of English liberty ! Alas for English liberty if it ...
... human species , so presumptuous and so abandoned as to make the proposal we have just heard . " " I hold this project , " he continued , " to be totally subversive of the last remains of English liberty ! Alas for English liberty if it ...
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... human and divine . It differed finally from the factory and the individual systems alike in being an empirical , as opposed to an organised method of pro- duction , carried on in establishments , and under con- ditions , necessarily ...
... human and divine . It differed finally from the factory and the individual systems alike in being an empirical , as opposed to an organised method of pro- duction , carried on in establishments , and under con- ditions , necessarily ...
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... human labour , and perhaps the next most obvious one is to cheapen production . Now as to whether lessened labour is an advantage to a labourer ( as such ) depends upon circumstances , even if it be conceded that cheapened production ...
... human labour , and perhaps the next most obvious one is to cheapen production . Now as to whether lessened labour is an advantage to a labourer ( as such ) depends upon circumstances , even if it be conceded that cheapened production ...
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... human being ; " yet so wrote John Stuart Mill.1 To that doubt we do not subscribe.2 That it could have been entertained by so great a man however , and , still more , have been thus formally expressed , is a very striking testimony ( we ...
... human being ; " yet so wrote John Stuart Mill.1 To that doubt we do not subscribe.2 That it could have been entertained by so great a man however , and , still more , have been thus formally expressed , is a very striking testimony ( we ...
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Page 76 - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is in this manner divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands...
Page 240 - Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles 'feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
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Page 50 - Within one room being large and long There stood two hundred Looms full strong : Two hundred men the truth is so Wrought in these Looms all in a row.
Page 198 - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring.
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