The Chronicles of America Series, Том 40Yale University Press, 1919 |
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... period , often called the golden age of labor . The land , he says , " was divided into small inclosures from two acres to six or seven each , seldom more : every three or four pieces of land had an house belonging to them ...
... period , often called the golden age of labor . The land , he says , " was divided into small inclosures from two acres to six or seven each , seldom more : every three or four pieces of land had an house belonging to them ...
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... period , the mechanism of production re- mained in the slow handicraft stage . This was now to change . In 1738 Kay invented the flying shuttle , multiplying the capacity of the loom . In 1767 Hargreaves completed the spinning - jenny ...
... period , the mechanism of production re- mained in the slow handicraft stage . This was now to change . In 1738 Kay invented the flying shuttle , multiplying the capacity of the loom . In 1767 Hargreaves completed the spinning - jenny ...
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... periods of extreme paternalism , glorified com- petition , and governmental antagonism to labor combinations , into what may be called the age of conciliation . And today the Labour Party in the House of Commons has shown itself strong ...
... periods of extreme paternalism , glorified com- petition , and governmental antagonism to labor combinations , into what may be called the age of conciliation . And today the Labour Party in the House of Commons has shown itself strong ...
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... period of Ameri- can history , and it is evident on reflection that there was little need , if any , of organization on the part of labor , at that time . " " I A new epoch for labor came in with the Revolu- tion . Within a decade wages ...
... period of Ameri- can history , and it is evident on reflection that there was little need , if any , of organization on the part of labor , at that time . " " I A new epoch for labor came in with the Revolu- tion . Within a decade wages ...
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... period were of a loose structure and scarcely comparable to the labor unions of today . Sidney Smith , the brilliant contributor to the Edinburgh Review , propounded in 1820 certain questions which sum up the general conditions of ...
... period were of a loose structure and scarcely comparable to the labor unions of today . Sidney Smith , the brilliant contributor to the Edinburgh Review , propounded in 1820 certain questions which sum up the general conditions of ...
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Сторінка 24 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed?
Сторінка 77 - When bad men combine, the good must associate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Сторінка 195 - The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.
Сторінка 61 - The case supposes that these persons are not bound by contract, but free to work for whom they please, or not to work, if they so prefer. In this state of things, we cannot perceive, that it is criminal for men to agree together to exercise their own acknowledged rights, in such a manner as best to subserve their own interests.
Сторінка 234 - That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world...
Сторінка 5 - Land about each house are occupied, for they scarce sow Corn enough to feed their Poultry. . . . The houses are full of lusty Fellows, some at the Dye-vat, some at the looms, others dressing the Cloths; the women 'and children carding or spinning; being all employed from the youngest to the oldest.
Сторінка 120 - We have no ultimate ends. We are going on from day to day. We are fighting only for immediate objects — objects that can be realized in a few years.
Сторінка 5 - Every clothier keeps one horse, at least, to carry his Manufactures to the Market ; and every one, generally, keeps a Cow or two or more for his Family. By this means the small Pieces of enclosed Land about each house are occupied, for they scarce sow Corn enough to feed their Poultry.
Сторінка 45 - ... those who are a few minutes behind the time, and effectual means are taken to stimulate to punctuality. This is the morning commencement of the industrial discipline — (should we not rather say industrial tyranny?) which is established in these Associations of this moral and Christian community. At seven the girls are allowed thirty minutes for breakfast, and at noon thirty minutes more for dinner, except during the first quarter of the year, when the time is extended to forty-five minutes.
Сторінка 237 - This party will exhaust all peaceable means of attaining its ends, but it will not be denied justice when it has the power to enforce it. It will encourage no riot or outrage, but it will not volunteer to repress, or put down, or arrest, or prosecute the hungry and impatient who manifest their hatred of the Chinamen by a crusade against ' John,