The History of the Cotton Famine: From the Fall of Sumter to the Passing of the Public Works ActSaunders, Otley, and Company, 1865 - Всего страниц: 350 |
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... shilling a pound than the Hindoo spinner ; but in 1860 our manufacture cost only one - fourth the price of Indian . The natives of India will never manufacture with machinery on an extensive scale ; their constitution and habits , their ...
... shilling a pound than the Hindoo spinner ; but in 1860 our manufacture cost only one - fourth the price of Indian . The natives of India will never manufacture with machinery on an extensive scale ; their constitution and habits , their ...
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... shilling . Where was then the capital of the cotton trade , and where that genius for money - making with which its constituents are not falsely credited ? The fact is , that the Cotton Famine - if this word still means scarcity - did ...
... shilling . Where was then the capital of the cotton trade , and where that genius for money - making with which its constituents are not falsely credited ? The fact is , that the Cotton Famine - if this word still means scarcity - did ...
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... shillings to three or more times that amount per week . The ignorance of the elder generation of operatives— so painfully manifested in the adult schools which have been one of the many good consequences of the Cotton Famine is not ...
... shillings to three or more times that amount per week . The ignorance of the elder generation of operatives— so painfully manifested in the adult schools which have been one of the many good consequences of the Cotton Famine is not ...
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... shillings per week , can rent a house which is wind and weather proof , though a filthy roadway may rise high above the door - sill , -though the paved floor be perpetually damp , and though , through the back door , fever - seeds are ...
... shillings per week , can rent a house which is wind and weather proof , though a filthy roadway may rise high above the door - sill , -though the paved floor be perpetually damp , and though , through the back door , fever - seeds are ...
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... shilling per pound was now given freely for this cotton , which could be grown with profit at threepence halfpenny . And the hitherto neglected Surat , ill - treated both in the land of its growth and in the place of its consumption ...
... shilling per pound was now given freely for this cotton , which could be grown with profit at threepence halfpenny . And the hitherto neglected Surat , ill - treated both in the land of its growth and in the place of its consumption ...
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American amount Ashton Ashton-under-Lyne assistance authority bales Blackburn boards of guardians capital cent Central Executive Committee Central Relief Committee charitable clothing condition considerable cotton districts Cotton Famine cotton manufacture cotton supply cotton trade demand difficulty distress duty emigration employment England English equal estimated expenditure extent fact factory facturers Farnall Glossop Government hands Haslingden honour improvement increase India interest labour Lancashire land large number less Liverpool loans Lord Lord Derby machinery Manchester Mansion House Committee manufac manufacturing districts ment mills months Oldham operatives outdoor outdoor relief parish persons Poor Law Board poor-rates population possessed post 8vo pound Preston production profits rate of relief rate-in-aid rateable value ratepayers raw material Ready received relief funds Rochdale shillings spindles Staleybridge Stockport subscriptions suffering sufficient Surat tion towns township unemployed Union Relief Aid Villiers wages week Wigan yarn
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