 I have always had that the social and political state of that town is far more healthy than that of Manchester ; and it arises from the fact that the industry of the hardware district is carried on by small manufacturers, employing a few men and boys...  The Life of Richard Cobden - Page 659by John Morley - 1906 - 985 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1881 - 672 pages
...on by small manufacturers, employing a few men and boys each, sometimes only an apprentice or two ; whilst the great capitalists in Manchester form an...capitalist class formed an excellent basis for the Anti-C'oraLaw movement, for they had inexhaustible purses, which they opened freely in a contest where... | |
 | John Morley (visct.) - 1882 - 146 pages
...on by small manufacturers, employing a few men and boys each, sometimes only an apprentice or two ; whilst the great capitalists in Manchester form an...two thousand persons. The former state of society is inoce natural and healthy in a moral and political sense. There is a freer intercourse between all... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1913 - 548 pages
...on by small manufacturers, employing a few men and boys each, sometimes only an apprentice or two ; whilst the great capitalists in Manchester form an...intercourse between all classes than in the Lancashire town,1 where a great and impassable gulf separates the workman from his employer. The great capitalist... | |
 | Arthur Samuel Peake, Bernard Bosanquet, Ferruccio Bonavia - Germany - 1915 - 604 pages
...employing a few men and boys each, sometimes only an apprentice or two ; whilst the great capitalists of Manchester form an aristocracy, individual members...capitalist class formed an excellent basis for the Anti Corn-Law movement, for they had inexhaustible purses, which they opened freely in a contest where... | |
 | William Haslam Mills - English newspapers - 1921 - 188 pages
...employing a few men and boys each, sometimes only an apprentice or two ; whilst the great capitalists of Manchester form an aristocracy, individual members...and impassable gulf separates the workman from his 95 employer. The great capitalist class formed an excellent basis for the Anti-Corn Law movement, for... | |
 | John Simpson Penman - Democracy - 1923 - 754 pages
...on by small manufacturers, employing a few men and boys each, sometimes only an apprentice or two; whilst the great capitalists in Manchester form an...impassable gulf separates the workman from his employer." " This was at once evident when Bright commenced his great campaign for reform there in October 1858.... | |
 | Asa Briggs - History - 1975 - 368 pages
...aristocratic snobbery" and more class co-operation. While, in Cobden's phrase, "the great capitalists of Manchester form an aristocracy, individual members...an influence over sometimes two thousand persons," in Birmingham businessmen and workingmen were not separated by high walls of social privilege. Workshops... | |
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