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... The dearness of labour gave a renewed impulse to the American genius for inventing labour - saving machinery , the effect being to aggravate that tendency to over - production , origi- 10 Foreign Work and English Wages .
... The dearness of labour gave a renewed impulse to the American genius for inventing labour - saving machinery , the effect being to aggravate that tendency to over - production , origi- 10 Foreign Work and English Wages .
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... machinery of credit is run at undue speed that over - production and over - trading ensue . The demand created by the Civil War for hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars ' worth of commodities was superadded to the normal wants ...
... machinery of credit is run at undue speed that over - production and over - trading ensue . The demand created by the Civil War for hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars ' worth of commodities was superadded to the normal wants ...
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... machinery like that supplied by the Custom House , by which we can gauge the extent and the fluctuations in the consumption of commodities at home . It is on our own people that British manu- facturers must chiefly rely , and a small ...
... machinery like that supplied by the Custom House , by which we can gauge the extent and the fluctuations in the consumption of commodities at home . It is on our own people that British manu- facturers must chiefly rely , and a small ...
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... part at least , to possess the latest improvements in machinery , and to be worked upon the most economical principles , the list may be taken as fairly representing the entire cotton industry 36 Foreign Work and English Wages .
... part at least , to possess the latest improvements in machinery , and to be worked upon the most economical principles , the list may be taken as fairly representing the entire cotton industry 36 Foreign Work and English Wages .
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... machinery , and fuel during the past year or two , the reduction of margin runs from 25 to 45 per cent . , as compared with 1874. In other words , consumers of raw cotton find the gross profit , on working it up , only two - thirds of ...
... machinery , and fuel during the past year or two , the reduction of margin runs from 25 to 45 per cent . , as compared with 1874. In other words , consumers of raw cotton find the gross profit , on working it up , only two - thirds of ...
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