Set in a Silver SeaDoubleday, 1968 - 359 pages A social history of England from the days of the first Stuart king, James, when England was largely an agricultural and rural country, through the reign of Queen Victoria, when England had become the world's foremost industrial and Imperial giant. |
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... workers and drove increas- ing numbers from their traditional life . In the trade depression of 1811/12 the average family earnings of Nottinghamshire silk workers dropped by a third , and the wages of Bolton cotton weavers fell to five ...
... workers and drove increas- ing numbers from their traditional life . In the trade depression of 1811/12 the average family earnings of Nottinghamshire silk workers dropped by a third , and the wages of Bolton cotton weavers fell to five ...
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... workers with thumbs crushed into formless lumps of flesh . They were even more frequent in the mines , where explosions , floods and landslides en- gulfed whole companies of colliers . Half the workers in the Cornish copper mines ...
... workers with thumbs crushed into formless lumps of flesh . They were even more frequent in the mines , where explosions , floods and landslides en- gulfed whole companies of colliers . Half the workers in the Cornish copper mines ...
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... workers in all negotiations with employers . They demanded a share in the direction of their labour . To the fury of the old - fashioned capitalist , to whom freedom of contract meant freedom of choice for the master and obedience for ...
... workers in all negotiations with employers . They demanded a share in the direction of their labour . To the fury of the old - fashioned capitalist , to whom freedom of contract meant freedom of choice for the master and obedience for ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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