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... labor . By the seventeenth century that economy prevailed over the better part of Europe , except for backward pockets where serfdom lingered into the nineteenth century . The prime agents of this industrial freedom were the craft ...
... labor . By the seventeenth century that economy prevailed over the better part of Europe , except for backward pockets where serfdom lingered into the nineteenth century . The prime agents of this industrial freedom were the craft ...
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... labor force to go into the standing army , the new municipal police , and the civil services . Never before probably was human service so abundant and so cheap in the Western World as it was during the nineteenth century , indeed right ...
... labor force to go into the standing army , the new municipal police , and the civil services . Never before probably was human service so abundant and so cheap in the Western World as it was during the nineteenth century , indeed right ...
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... labor no less than from the upper class freedom to avoid labor . That new possibility was outlined more than a century ago by that singular if mad genius Charles Fourier . This is what Fourier called the ' butterfly principle ...
... labor no less than from the upper class freedom to avoid labor . That new possibility was outlined more than a century ago by that singular if mad genius Charles Fourier . This is what Fourier called the ' butterfly principle ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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