The Historical Basis of Socialism in EnglandK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1883 - 492 pages |
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... steam gave an independent force to the carrier - each and all were due to small advances , which together contributed to the general movement of mankind . So with the great industrial inventions and machines , simple or complicated ...
... steam gave an independent force to the carrier - each and all were due to small advances , which together contributed to the general movement of mankind . So with the great industrial inventions and machines , simple or complicated ...
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... steam - engine to work at full pressure , so much food for a man . The Dorsetshire or Devonshire agricultural labourer gives less than the average English social labour - force , because he has been in- sufficiently trained and badly ...
... steam - engine to work at full pressure , so much food for a man . The Dorsetshire or Devonshire agricultural labourer gives less than the average English social labour - force , because he has been in- sufficiently trained and badly ...
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... steam engine ; the barbe , Arkwright , the mule ; and the goldsmith , Fulton , the steamboat . Marx , " Capital , ” p . 211 . contained many jennys driven by water - power . These 144 THE HISTORICAL BASIS OF SOCIALISM .
... steam engine ; the barbe , Arkwright , the mule ; and the goldsmith , Fulton , the steamboat . Marx , " Capital , ” p . 211 . contained many jennys driven by water - power . These 144 THE HISTORICAL BASIS OF SOCIALISM .
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... steam - engine came into play . Before the century was out , Cartwright's weaving process by machinery crushed the hand - loom weavers , as the jenny had beaten the spinners . The mere manual labourers saw their bread literally taken ...
... steam - engine came into play . Before the century was out , Cartwright's weaving process by machinery crushed the hand - loom weavers , as the jenny had beaten the spinners . The mere manual labourers saw their bread literally taken ...
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... and wretchedness into which the great mass of the people were then plunged . In some few cases there had been an advance of wages , jenny and the steam engine , the furious absorption of 4 : 6 THE HISTORICAL BASIS OF SOCIALISM .
... and wretchedness into which the great mass of the people were then plunged . In some few cases there had been an advance of wages , jenny and the steam engine , the furious absorption of 4 : 6 THE HISTORICAL BASIS OF SOCIALISM .
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