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 312
... labour . In 1880 the Trade Union Congress only repre- sented 600,000 members : by 1892 the figure had doubled . It was not only for advances in wages that the older Unions fought , but for recognition as the sole representatives of the ...
... labour . In 1880 the Trade Union Congress only repre- sented 600,000 members : by 1892 the figure had doubled . It was not only for advances in wages that the older Unions fought , but for recognition as the sole representatives of the ...
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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... Labour movement which had raised him from a poor apprentice's bench to a Privy Councillorship and a seat in the Cabinet , made an attempt to sum it all up . " I have seen many lands , " he wrote , “ but none as good as my own . I have ...
... Labour movement which had raised him from a poor apprentice's bench to a Privy Councillorship and a seat in the Cabinet , made an attempt to sum it all up . " I have seen many lands , " he wrote , “ but none as good as my own . I have ...
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Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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