The Modern Factory System: By R. Whately Cooke TaylorK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891 - 476 pages |
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... Natural and Political Observations upon the State and Condition of England , " by Gregory King , Lancaster Herald , 1696 , p . 36 ( printed in Chalmer's " Estimate , " 1804 ) . 3 In 1881 the population within the metropolitan area was ...
... Natural and Political Observations upon the State and Condition of England , " by Gregory King , Lancaster Herald , 1696 , p . 36 ( printed in Chalmer's " Estimate , " 1804 ) . 3 In 1881 the population within the metropolitan area was ...
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... nature of the transaction . But latterly this simple method of acquir ing property at the expense of others had attained great proportions . It is stated by Mr. Shaw Lefevre that 334,974 acres of common land were enclosed between 1710 ...
... nature of the transaction . But latterly this simple method of acquir ing property at the expense of others had attained great proportions . It is stated by Mr. Shaw Lefevre that 334,974 acres of common land were enclosed between 1710 ...
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... nature of the case , and this in an ever - ascending scale . He might in future obtain all the necessaries of life much cheaper , if he had the means to purchase them . But where were they to come from ? Machinery is costly , and the ...
... nature of the case , and this in an ever - ascending scale . He might in future obtain all the necessaries of life much cheaper , if he had the means to purchase them . But where were they to come from ? Machinery is costly , and the ...
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... Nature , dor- mant , or little availed of until then ; he calls on them to perform the lengthiest , the most wearisome tasks which hitherto devolved on him ; providing them from out his cunning mind with wonderful appliances for doing ...
... Nature , dor- mant , or little availed of until then ; he calls on them to perform the lengthiest , the most wearisome tasks which hitherto devolved on him ; providing them from out his cunning mind with wonderful appliances for doing ...
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... nature of this new principle , and can here afford only a rapid glance round at its influence on old ideals . That ... natural instinct to prolong life by this or some other effort , and the impersonal arbitrament of the labour market ...
... nature of this new principle , and can here afford only a rapid glance round at its influence on old ideals . That ... natural instinct to prolong life by this or some other effort , and the impersonal arbitrament of the labour market ...
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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.
Page 225 - DO ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years ? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west : But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
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