Modern Economic History with Special Reference to AustraliaWorkers' Education Association of South Australia, 1922 - 288 páginas |
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... whole standing of banking was raised , and the rate of interest on loans fell from 8 per cent . to 4 per cent . within twenty years . A few other smaller banks were soon established , and London obtained the financial facilities which ...
... whole standing of banking was raised , and the rate of interest on loans fell from 8 per cent . to 4 per cent . within twenty years . A few other smaller banks were soon established , and London obtained the financial facilities which ...
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... whole arable land on the estate was cut up into fields , which were then divided into an enormous number of narrow strips . These were shared out among tenants and yeomen in proportion to the size of their holdings . For instance , in ...
... whole arable land on the estate was cut up into fields , which were then divided into an enormous number of narrow strips . These were shared out among tenants and yeomen in proportion to the size of their holdings . For instance , in ...
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... whole face of the estate , he would waste hours in getting from one to the other at ploughing or harvest time . Again , the treatment of the land was very crude . The wood plough still prevailed in many parts , and did little more than ...
... whole face of the estate , he would waste hours in getting from one to the other at ploughing or harvest time . Again , the treatment of the land was very crude . The wood plough still prevailed in many parts , and did little more than ...
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... whole of the remaining open fields and commons . Each act appointed commissioners- " a most precious piece of delegated despotism " ( Young ) -with full powers to survey and share out the estate . The commissioners heard claims from the ...
... whole of the remaining open fields and commons . Each act appointed commissioners- " a most precious piece of delegated despotism " ( Young ) -with full powers to survey and share out the estate . The commissioners heard claims from the ...
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... whole of an estate going to the eldest son , it must be shared out equally among all the children , male and female alike . There is one slight reservation : if a man has one child , he can do as he pleases with half the estate , but ...
... whole of an estate going to the eldest son , it must be shared out equally among all the children , male and female alike . There is one slight reservation : if a man has one child , he can do as he pleases with half the estate , but ...
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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.