Labor in Europe and America: A Special Report on the Rates of Wages, the Cost of Subsistence, and the Condition of the Working Classes in Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, and Other Countries of Europe, Also in the United States and British AmericaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1876 - 864 páginas |
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... manufacture of swords was an object of special attention . They were formed of the finest steel , highly polished and elaborately ornamented . The manufacture of arms and armor of all descriptions was at all times , among the Greeks ...
... manufacture of swords was an object of special attention . They were formed of the finest steel , highly polished and elaborately ornamented . The manufacture of arms and armor of all descriptions was at all times , among the Greeks ...
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... manufacture of bricks . Great ingenuity was dis- played in the manufacture of cement , of which one variety was so durable as frequently to outlast the materials it was used to unite . The house - painters of Greece appear to have ...
... manufacture of bricks . Great ingenuity was dis- played in the manufacture of cement , of which one variety was so durable as frequently to outlast the materials it was used to unite . The house - painters of Greece appear to have ...
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... manufactured there was obtained from the plains of Elis , where the plant attained a perfection which made it , in ... manufacture of carpets the Greeks displayed their usual taste and skill , both in respect to their quality and the ...
... manufactured there was obtained from the plains of Elis , where the plant attained a perfection which made it , in ... manufacture of carpets the Greeks displayed their usual taste and skill , both in respect to their quality and the ...
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... manufactures had received a new impetus in consequence of the ferocious persecutions of Philip II and his lieutenants ... manufacture of baizes , serges , and other stuffs , and successfully carried on a variety of textile industries ...
... manufactures had received a new impetus in consequence of the ferocious persecutions of Philip II and his lieutenants ... manufacture of baizes , serges , and other stuffs , and successfully carried on a variety of textile industries ...
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... manufacture lived as well as a farmer . But those times were past . Sixpence a day was now all that could be earned by hard labor at the loom . If the poor complained that they could not live on such a pittance , they were told that ...
... manufacture lived as well as a farmer . But those times were past . Sixpence a day was now all that could be earned by hard labor at the loom . If the poor complained that they could not live on such a pittance , they were told that ...
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