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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Page 210
... labour , could afford to operate on a far bigger scale than their fathers . Having no stake in what he raised , the farm labourer in an en- closed village gained nothing from its increased price . On the contrary , having to buy most of ...
... labour , could afford to operate on a far bigger scale than their fathers . Having no stake in what he raised , the farm labourer in an en- closed village gained nothing from its increased price . On the contrary , having to buy most of ...
Page 249
... Labour as a body of men and women with individual needs and rights but as a statistical abstrac- tion . Labour was a commodity of value on which the man of capital , with whom all initiative lay , could draw as the state of the market ...
... Labour as a body of men and women with individual needs and rights but as a statistical abstrac- tion . Labour was a commodity of value on which the man of capital , with whom all initiative lay , could draw as the state of the market ...
Page 316
... labour could present a solid front to the capitalist aggressor . But elsewhere the employer could always count on the amorphous mass of starving poverty from which to draft non - Union or " free " labour into his factories and so break ...
... labour could present a solid front to the capitalist aggressor . But elsewhere the employer could always count on the amorphous mass of starving poverty from which to draft non - Union or " free " labour into his factories and so break ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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