Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England: Popular Addresses, Notes and Other FragmentsRivingtons, 1887 - 263 páginas |
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... land to waste - Large amount of common land- Beneficial effect of enclosures upon agriculture - Comparative pro- gressiveness of different districts -- Improvements in cultivation and in the breed of live stock - Slowness of ...
... land to waste - Large amount of common land- Beneficial effect of enclosures upon agriculture - Comparative pro- gressiveness of different districts -- Improvements in cultivation and in the breed of live stock - Slowness of ...
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... land . Could it be that an Englishman , and he not in academic bowers , but oppressed by mercantile and senatorial cares , had accomplished what all the universities of Europe and a century of thought had failed even to advance by one ...
... land . Could it be that an Englishman , and he not in academic bowers , but oppressed by mercantile and senatorial cares , had accomplished what all the universities of Europe and a century of thought had failed even to advance by one ...
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... land of to - day than it did from the England of the middle ages . The cotton manufacture is mentioned only once in Smith's book . The staple industries of the country were still wool , tanned leather , and hardware , while silk and ...
... land of to - day than it did from the England of the middle ages . The cotton manufacture is mentioned only once in Smith's book . The staple industries of the country were still wool , tanned leather , and hardware , while silk and ...
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... Land Act controversy of 1881 was constantly accused of violating the laws of Political Economy . It was impossible for Mr. Gladstone to do any such thing . The laws of Political Economy can no more be violated than those of physical ...
... Land Act controversy of 1881 was constantly accused of violating the laws of Political Economy . It was impossible for Mr. Gladstone to do any such thing . The laws of Political Economy can no more be violated than those of physical ...
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... land in the United Kingdom is owned by 2512 persons.1 And not only does it investigate the stages of economic development in a given country , but it compares them with those which have obtained in other countries and times , and seeks ...
... land in the United Kingdom is owned by 2512 persons.1 And not only does it investigate the stages of economic development in a given country , but it compares them with those which have obtained in other countries and times , and seeks ...
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Adam Smith agricultural Arnold Toynbee Arthur Young artisans assertion Balliol College believe capital capitalist causes cent century Chartists Church classes co-operators common competition condition corn Corn-Laws cotton cultivated demand distribution of wealth districts economists effect employer enclosures England English existence fact factory farmers farms freedom freeholders growth hands human idea ideal importance improved increase individual industrial Industrial Revolution influence instance interest James Mill James Watt labour Lancashire land landowners living Malthus manufacturers masters mediæval merchants method Mill modern moral nature Northern Tour organisation parish pauperism Political Economy Poor Law population present principle produce profits progress question Radicals rate of wages recognise reform religion rent repeal revolution Ricardo rise Robert Owen social Socialists society spiritual theory things thought tion towns Toynbee trade Trades-Unions true union wage-fund wants Wealth of Nations whole wool woollen workmen
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Página 15 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Página 75 - The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Página 2 - Mr. Ricardo had deduced a priori from the understanding itself laws which first gave a ray of light into the unwieldy chaos of materials, and had constructed what had been but a collection of tentative discussions into a science of regular proportions, now first standing on an eternal basis.
Página 12 - By this wise provision," he says, " ie by making the passion of self-love beyond comparison stronger than the passion of benevolence, the more ignorant are led to pursue the general happiness, an end which they would have totally failed to attain if the moving principle of their conduct had been benevolence.
Página 183 - The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily ; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit, their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it.
Página 192 - We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named "fair competition" and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings; we think, nothing doubting, that // absolves and liquidates all engagements of man. "My starving workers?
Página 106 - Throughout the whole of the present work I have so far differed in principle from the former, as to suppose the action of another check to population which does not come under the head either of vice or misery; and, in the latter part I have endeavoured to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first Essay.
Página 81 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 90 - Passing to manufactures, we find here the all-prominent fact to be the substitution of the factory for the domestic system, the consequence of the mechanical discoveries of the time.
Página 115 - There is supposed to be, at any given instant, a sum of wealth, which is unconditionally devoted to the payment of wages of labour.