Artisans and Machinery: The Moral and Physical Condition of the Manufacturing Population Considered with Reference to Mechanical Substitutes for Human LabourJ.W. Parker, 1836 - 399 sivua |
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adult advantages agricultural amongst amount appears attended average become body brought capital carbonic acid causes character Charles Dupin chiefly child circumstances cloth comfort condition consequence considerable cottage cotton cultivation disease domestic discipline domestic manufacturers early earnings effects employed employment engaged equally evils existence extent fact factory labour factory system facturing females Glasgow habits hand-loom weavers houses human labour improvement increase industry infant influence injurious interests Lancashire less loom machine machinery Manchester manu manufac manufacturing districts manufacturing population manufacturing towns masters means mill artisans moral nature occupation Octavo operatives parents peculiar period persons Philosophy of Manufactures physical poor portion present produce profit racter remarks render respect result scrofula social society spinners spinning steam Stockport suffer Sunday schools thing THOMAS TURTON tion trade truck system turn-outs Vide wages waste lands weaving weft whilst whole workmen yarn
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Sivu 184 - ... in the mass, it would be impossible to congregate in a smaller compass. Their complexion is sallow and pallid — with a peculiar flatness of feature, caused by the want of a proper quantity of adipose substance to cushion out the cheeks.
Sivu 318 - In those spacious halls the benignant power of steam summons around him his myriads of willing menials, and assigns to each the regulated task, substituting for painful muscular effort on their part the energies of his own gigantic arm, and demanding in return only attention and dexterity to correct such little aberrations as casually occur in his workmanship.
Sivu 33 - ... and pushing their advance by a series of unceasing exertions, having a very limited capital to begin with, or even none at all, saving their own labour'.
Sivu 356 - It is, in fact, the constant aim and tendency of every improvement in machinery to supersede human labour altogether, or to diminish its cost, by substituting the industry of women and children for that of men ; or that of ordinary labourers, for trained artisans.
Sivu 335 - ... eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient for the consumption of one weaver, — this shows clearly the inexhaustible source there was for labour for every person, from the age of seven to eighty years (who retained their sight and could move their hands), to earn their bread...