Modern Economic History with Special Reference to AustraliaWorkers' Education Association of South Australia, 1922 - 288 páginas |
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... become fairly important before 1750 , and the capitalist controlled those who worked in many industries . But the most fertile fields for profitable use of capital were commerce and finance rather than production . The period of change ...
... become fairly important before 1750 , and the capitalist controlled those who worked in many industries . But the most fertile fields for profitable use of capital were commerce and finance rather than production . The period of change ...
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... become a small independent or semi - independent master craftsman . 99 A From mediæval times downwards wages of journeymen had been subject to regulation , first by the towns and guilds , and later by the state . famous act of 1563 ...
... become a small independent or semi - independent master craftsman . 99 A From mediæval times downwards wages of journeymen had been subject to regulation , first by the towns and guilds , and later by the state . famous act of 1563 ...
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... agricultural antiquities . To the business mind farming must be made to pay higher profits and rents . It must become a commercial proposition . Enclosures . The joint result of these combined forces was 10 MODERN ECONOMIC HISTORY .
... agricultural antiquities . To the business mind farming must be made to pay higher profits and rents . It must become a commercial proposition . Enclosures . The joint result of these combined forces was 10 MODERN ECONOMIC HISTORY .
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... become peasant proprietors . This was accomplished by the Government purchasing about one - third of the nobles ' land ( 350,000,000 acres ) , which was then sold on a 49 years ' instalment plan to the village communities - the mirs ...
... become peasant proprietors . This was accomplished by the Government purchasing about one - third of the nobles ' land ( 350,000,000 acres ) , which was then sold on a 49 years ' instalment plan to the village communities - the mirs ...
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... become the property of those who cultivate it . In Asia we find similar conditions . Japan abolished feudalism in 1871 , and most of her farmers to - day own the one to four acres on which they grow their rice , tea , and silk . Japan ...
... become the property of those who cultivate it . In Asia we find similar conditions . Japan abolished feudalism in 1871 , and most of her farmers to - day own the one to four acres on which they grow their rice , tea , and silk . Japan ...
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18th century action agreement agricultural American arbitration Australia banks became began big union bodies Bolshevik British capital capitalist cent century Chartism co-operation co-operative coal committee companies competition conciliation consumer Corn Laws cost court craft unions declared demand democratic disputes early economic eight-hour day employers employment England especially established factory farmers favour Federal firms free trade friendly society Germany growth guild socialism hands Hence ideas important increased industrial Industrial Revolution interests Labour Party laissez-faire land laws legislation machine machinery manufacture Marx Melbourne ment methods monopoly movement organization parliament peasant political possible principle production profit protection Queensland railways regulation revolution scheme secure share social socialist South Australia South Wales strike supply Sydney syndicalism syndicalist tariff Tasmania tion to-day trade union trust unionists wage-earners wages whole workers
Passagens conhecidas
Página 209 - The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under, it.
Página 209 - No social order ever disappears before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have been developed; and new higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society itself.
Página 81 - Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride.
Página 208 - The modern laborer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the progress of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.
Página 67 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Página 68 - ... he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 67 - Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be based only upon public utility. 2. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
Página 205 - The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Página 269 - That as Soon as practicable, this society shall proceed to arrange the powers of production, distribution, education, and government, or in other words to establish a self-supporting home colony of united interests, or assist other societies in establishing such colonies.
Página 208 - It is unfit to rule, because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him.