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Page ix
... cheap loaf . The manufacturers would get what they wanted - cheaper labour ; the operatives - an increased value of wages . For a time , then , all would work smoothly enough . But how long would it last ? The This was the turning ...
... cheap loaf . The manufacturers would get what they wanted - cheaper labour ; the operatives - an increased value of wages . For a time , then , all would work smoothly enough . But how long would it last ? The This was the turning ...
Page xi
... cheap bread , and not from below . It had to be made to appear that this free trade was all in favour of the working classes . Let us see how this was done . " Was there ever prosperity with high price of bread ? ” asked Cobden , and ...
... cheap bread , and not from below . It had to be made to appear that this free trade was all in favour of the working classes . Let us see how this was done . " Was there ever prosperity with high price of bread ? ” asked Cobden , and ...
Page xv
... 6. The sudden rises in the price of wheat due to speculation 7. The " natural " protection to corn · 8. Cheap bread and the object of the Manchester school 887 59 68 • 77 CHAPTER IV . COBDEN AND BRITISH AGRICULTURE . 9. Cobden.
... 6. The sudden rises in the price of wheat due to speculation 7. The " natural " protection to corn · 8. Cheap bread and the object of the Manchester school 887 59 68 • 77 CHAPTER IV . COBDEN AND BRITISH AGRICULTURE . 9. Cobden.
Page xviii
... cheapest fashion , as Cobden foretold . It allows whole markets to become acquired by our rivals CHAPTER XIII . 251 260 FREE TRADE AND THE PRODUCTIVE SOURCES OF THE NATION : THE SUPPOSED CONFLICT BETWEEN MANUFACTURE AND AGRICULTURE HAS ...
... cheapest fashion , as Cobden foretold . It allows whole markets to become acquired by our rivals CHAPTER XIII . 251 260 FREE TRADE AND THE PRODUCTIVE SOURCES OF THE NATION : THE SUPPOSED CONFLICT BETWEEN MANUFACTURE AND AGRICULTURE HAS ...
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... cheap wages rose to their highest point . " Only make bread cheap , " they cried , and we will compete more successfully than we have ever yet done with the world . Thus it appears that the normal progress of our industries under ...
... cheap wages rose to their highest point . " Only make bread cheap , " they cried , and we will compete more successfully than we have ever yet done with the world . Thus it appears that the normal progress of our industries under ...
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action agricultural labourers artificial demand assert become free-traders Bonamy Price British manufacturer capital causation cause Chartist cheap bread cheaper Cobden commercial competition consequences consumer Corn Laws cost of transit cultivation currency demand for labour depression destroy distress duties effect England existence export trade fact factor farmers favourable fluctuation forces foreign markets free imports free intercourse free-trade policy gain high price home markets Huskisson increased induced industries influence intercourse in corn interest John Bright labouring classes landlords Lord Overstone manu means monopoly nations natural operation opinion period perity political predicted present price of bread price of corn price of wheat principle of free produce profits progress prosperity protection protectionists question railway reduced reforms remunerative repeal result Richard Cobden rivals selfish Sir Robert Peel soil sources stimulate supply surrounding conditions system of free tendency Thorold Rogers tion trade in corn unequal universal free trade wages William Huskisson