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in the texts

Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century19th Century · English

Wage-earning class who produce socially but own no raw material, product, or machinery; suffer most from commercial crises

The working people, who suffered most from the crisis, were little inclined to bear their misery silently.

i. the crisis of 1815 ¶

Notably, we may observe the glut of commodities as the pre-eminent cause of lack of employment and misery for the working classes, already instanced by Robert Owen as directly due to the use of machinery by the great capitalists exclusively for their own profit.

i. the crisis of 1815 ¶

But the war, that great and most extravagant customer to farmers, manufacturers, and other producers of wealth, having come to an end, those who were most anxious to obtain some of their superabundant supplies of food and manufactures in return for useful work were prevented from doing so by the fact that they could not be employed at a profit.

i. the crisis of 1815 ¶

Economics of Socialism19th Century · English

The working class, both as the producers of the press that published the work and as the economic subject of the wage and labour debates.

This Press is entirely organised and managed by men of the working class in the interest of the Socialist movement in Great Britain;

preface ¶

The fact that the workers, as a class, are not themselves capitalists, as a class, that they do not own and control their own means of production and exchange and pay themselves their own wages, this fact “introduces complexity” into the solution of the problem of modern production;

ch. 2 ¶

The wages of “a working man” are what he can get, after landlord, government and (shall we say) banker have scrambled for their portions!

ch. 2 ¶