Set in a Silver SeaA 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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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 shillings a week . Though a recovery always followed ...
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 shillings a week . Though a recovery always followed ...
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Accidents with primitive , unfenced machinery were common ; Pückler - Muskau saw workers with thumbs crushed into formless lumps of flesh . They were even more frequent in the mines , where explosions , floods and landslides engulfed ...
Accidents with primitive , unfenced machinery were common ; Pückler - Muskau saw workers with thumbs crushed into formless lumps of flesh . They were even more frequent in the mines , where explosions , floods and landslides engulfed ...
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It used the worker's vote to appeal over the head of the employer to a parliament now dependent on that vote ... compensation for injured workers , the limitation of shop hours , new factory regulations , further amendment of the law of ...
It used the worker's vote to appeal over the head of the employer to a parliament now dependent on that vote ... compensation for injured workers , the limitation of shop hours , new factory regulations , further amendment of the law of ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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| Title | Set in a Silver Sea Anchor A680 Volume 680 of Anchor books Doubleday anchor books English social history |
| Author | Arthur Bryant |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 31 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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