The Modern Factory System: By R. Whately Cooke TaylorK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891 - 476 pages |
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... limited area covered formerly by com- mercial enterprise an area of unknown extent and indefinite possibilities had been substituted ; and in place of the commercial qualities suited to cope with those earlier conditions a new type of ...
... limited area covered formerly by com- mercial enterprise an area of unknown extent and indefinite possibilities had been substituted ; and in place of the commercial qualities suited to cope with those earlier conditions a new type of ...
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... limited meaning assigned to labour for instance , and the narrow conception of value , in both of which particulars I hold it to be fundamentally in error . D the system of producing wealth had been greatly altered , LABOUR AND ...
... limited meaning assigned to labour for instance , and the narrow conception of value , in both of which particulars I hold it to be fundamentally in error . D the system of producing wealth had been greatly altered , LABOUR AND ...
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... limited in supply ; the capacity of manu- facture is practically unlimited ; for no definite bounds can be set to it . The same labour applied to the former must meet ever in the long run with a less return , whilst applied to the ...
... limited in supply ; the capacity of manu- facture is practically unlimited ; for no definite bounds can be set to it . The same labour applied to the former must meet ever in the long run with a less return , whilst applied to the ...
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... limited scale ; the bulk of society relied for the supply of necessaries , and even of things convenient , upon the labour of their own hands in their various crafts , and to getting what they needed by interchange with their neighbours ...
... limited scale ; the bulk of society relied for the supply of necessaries , and even of things convenient , upon the labour of their own hands in their various crafts , and to getting what they needed by interchange with their neighbours ...
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... limited general information - men who saw and knew little of anything beyond the demand for their twist or cloth , and the speediest and best modes for their produc- tion . They were , however , from their acquired station , men who ...
... limited general information - men who saw and knew little of anything beyond the demand for their twist or cloth , and the speediest and best modes for their produc- tion . They were , however , from their acquired station , men who ...
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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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