Lectures on the Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century in England: Popular Addresses, Notes, and Other FragmentsLongmans, Green, 1908 - 282 páginas |
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Adam Smith agricultural Arnold Toynbee Arthur Young artisans assertion believe capital capitalist causes cent century Chartists Church classes co-operators common competition condition corn Corn-Laws cotton cultivation demand distribution of wealth districts doctrine economists employer enclosures England English existence fact factory farmers farms freedom freeholders growth hands human idea ideal importance improved increase individual Industrial Revolution influence instance interest James Mill James Watt labour Lancashire land landowners lived Malthus manufactures masters ment merchants method Mill moral nature Northern Tour organisation Oxfordshire pauperism Political Economy Poor Law population present principle produce profits progress Progress and Poverty question Radicals rate of wages recognise reform religion rent repeal Ricardo rise Robert Owen social Socialists society spirit theory things tion towns Toynbee trade Trades-Unions true union wage-fund wants Wealth of Nations whole wool woollen workmen
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Página 153 - 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 149 - 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 210 - 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 87 - 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 78 - Sunday following, if need require, when the people are at the church at divine service, shall gently ask and demand of every man and woman what they of their charity will be contented to give weekly towards the relief of the poor...
Página 60 - 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 200 - 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 243 - What part of education then is left for co-operators to appropriate ? The answer I would give is, the education of the citizen. By this I mean the education of each member of the community as regards the relation in which he stands to other individual citizens and to the community as a whole.
Página 96 - There is supposed to be, at any given instant, a sum of wealth, which is unconditionally devoted to the payment of wages of labour.
Página 30 - At every considerable house there was a manufactory. Every clothier keeps one horse at least to carry his manufactures to the market; and every one generally keeps a cow or two or more for his family. By this means the small pieces of inclosed land about each house are occupied, for they scarce sow corn enough to feed their poultry.