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... factory system before the Factory Acts . The brutalities of those days have left their legacies in many of the problems of our own , in the population of the Jago and the slum . Those whom society in any age neglects do not neglect to ...
... factory system before the Factory Acts . The brutalities of those days have left their legacies in many of the problems of our own , in the population of the Jago and the slum . Those whom society in any age neglects do not neglect to ...
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... Factory Acts , the leaders of the Anti - Corn Law League were mostly either actively hostile or indifferent , while Ashley was equally opposed to Free Trade . The Chartists , on the other hand , looked , as a whole , exclusively to ...
... Factory Acts , the leaders of the Anti - Corn Law League were mostly either actively hostile or indifferent , while Ashley was equally opposed to Free Trade . The Chartists , on the other hand , looked , as a whole , exclusively to ...
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... factory legislation was as much a triumph for them as for anyone else . Owenism was , then , not without its direct ... Acts , it is safe to say that no permanent improvement in the condition of the British people would have been ...
... factory legislation was as much a triumph for them as for anyone else . Owenism was , then , not without its direct ... Acts , it is safe to say that no permanent improvement in the condition of the British people would have been ...
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... Factory Acts , brought about . Cobden1 hated Trade Unions , and passed the measure that rendered effective unionism possible . Cobden would certainly have disapproved of Social- ism , yet the Trade Unionism to which he gave its great ...
... Factory Acts , brought about . Cobden1 hated Trade Unions , and passed the measure that rendered effective unionism possible . Cobden would certainly have disapproved of Social- ism , yet the Trade Unionism to which he gave its great ...
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... Factory Acts , while Owen once stood for Parliament . But Whig and Tory were left to fight out their party battles pretty much as they would have done had Robert Owen never been born . But the very existence of such a movement was a ...
... Factory Acts , while Owen once stood for Parliament . But Whig and Tory were left to fight out their party battles pretty much as they would have done had Robert Owen never been born . But the very existence of such a movement was a ...
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æsthetic become British candidate capital capitalist century certainly Chartist civilisation co-operation Co-operative common communisation compelled competition conscious Corn Laws democracy democratic economic effective election England English enthusiasm equally essential existence Fabian Fabian Society fact Factory Acts favour force freedom future Government growing hand human idea ideal income Independent Labour Party individual individualistic Industrial Revolution influence interest Keir Hardie Labour Representation Labour Representation Committee land less Liberal liquor living machinery matter means ment method modern monopoly municipal nation nature never organic Socialism organisation Owen Owenite ownership Parliament perhaps politics poor possible practical present probably production profit progress proletariat public ownership question realise reform Robert Owen Social Democratic Federation Socialist movement society soon spirit supply taxes tend theory things thought tion Tory Toryism town Trade Unionism Trade Unionists tramway village vote wages whole women workers
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Page 66 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few.
Page 67 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 127 - Socialist developped by the .ILP' influence was just the sort of person bis fellowworkmen found it very easy to associate with and to trust. When he was ,religious', he filled the chapels of the district with a quaint mixture of Socialist aspiration and evangelical doctrine; if he had finally severed himself from orthodoxy, he joined a .Labour Church' where they sang hymns and offered prayers in the most approved fashion of British nonconformity.
Page xiv - ... mutual peace for that of mutual war, whatever the motive which impelled them to take that step, created society. But, in establishing peace, they obviously put a limit upon the struggle for existence. Between the members of that society, at any rate, it was not to be pursued a entrance. And of all the successive shapes which society has taken, that most nearly approaches perfection in which the war of individual against individual is most strictly limited.
Page xiv - The first men who substituted the state of mutual peace for that of mutual war, whatever the motive which impelled them to take that step, created society. But, in establishing peace, they obviously put a limit upon the struggle for existence. Between the members of that society, at any rate, it was not to be pursued A outrance.
Page 166 - ... many thousands without exercising any practical influence on the electorate. Thus, London Trade Unionism, though not particularly backward, exercises very little of the influence on the minds of the generality of workers that it does in the provinces. It seems to me almost impossible to get so closely into touch with the minds of the bulk of the London workers as the Independent Labour Party has already done with those of the manufacturing districts. There are scores of public meetings, addressed...
Page 126 - With the addition of a faith in socialism, the Independent Labour man generally shared all the virtues and limitations of the best type of his fellows. Very possibly he was an active socialist, quite possibly, also, he took a drop too much, occasionally, but he was even more likely to be a Methodist local preacher or perhaps a bigoted 'Rechabite'.
Page 59 - The youth who has the good fortune and inclination for preparing himself as a useful member of society by the study of physic, and who studies that profession with success so as to obtain his diploma from the Surgeons...
Page 148 - Conference implied in the foregoing resolution consisted of representatives of the Congress, the Independent Labour Party, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Fabian Society.
Page 166 - A lecture by Mr Snowden, in a provincial town, is an event of some importance; his coming is announced before-hand on every hoarding, and his speech is well reported in the local press next day. The people who hear it are a sufficient proportion of the total population to reappear in little groups next morning in every workshop in the town; and are sufficiently delighted with what they have...