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Throws light on the background, conditions, and practices of England's economic life during the reign of James I.

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Excerpt from Syllabus of a Course of Classes on the Social and Political History of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1Report of Poor Law Commission of 1834 (reprinted). Redlich and hirst, English Local Government, Vol. 1. T. Mackay, History of the English Poor Law.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical wo...

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This volume addresses the questions of how religion has affected social and economic practices since the Middle Ages. In tracking the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology, R.H. Tawney sheds light on why Christianity continues to exert a role in the marketplace.

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Excerpt from The Acquisitive Society But if the medicine of the constitution ought not to be made its daily food, neither can its daily food be made medicine. There are times which are not ordinary, and in such times it is not enough to follow the road. It is necessary to know where it leads, and, if it leads nowhere, to follow another. The search for another involves reflection, which is uncongenial to the bustling people who describe themse...

Excerpt from Studies in the Minimmum Wage: The Establishment of Minimum Rates, in the Chain-Making Industry Under, the Trade Boards Act of 1909 February 13th, 1891, and March 1oth, 1909, to bargaining between workers and employers. But at the present time the tide seems to be turning. To the first four industries scheduled by the Trade Boards Act in 1909, four more were added in 1913. The Trade Boards Act, which was itself in¿uenced by the-ex...

Excerpt from The Establishment of Minimum Rates in the Tailoring Industry: Under the Trade Boards Act of 1909 In trying to discover the effect of the establishment of a minimum wage the inquirer meets in almost every industry with different reactions and different difii culties in presenting them. In the chain-making industry it was comparatively easy to state with some precision the effect of the Trade Board on piece rates and earnings. In t...

Excerpt from Life and Struggles of William Lovett in His Pursuit of Bread Knowledge, and Freedom: With Some Short Account of the Different Associations He Belonged to and of the Opinions He Entertained The Life and Struggles of William Lovell which is now reprinted from the first edition of 1876, is more than the mere autobiography which its title might suggest. Lovett was a Cornishman, born in 1800 at Newlyn, who migrated to London in 1821. ...

First published in 1978, the introduction by J. M. Winter to this edition of ten of Tawney¿s essays affords the first full evaluation and significance of his approach to economic history.

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Excerpt from Syllabus of a Course of Classes on English Social History: 1760-1815Summary of main effects of economic changes, 1760 1815. Great commercial developments. English tonnage doubled between 1780 and 1790: exports averaged £13§ millions, 1780-1790, £24_rnillions 1792-1800, 18-00-1810 £34 millions. Partly because oi-war English goods ¿ooded foreign markets. But qualitative change in English economic life more sigui ficant than quantita...

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