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- By 1914, Britain relied on ...of its food - the only country to do so at this time - and agriculture was no longer an important part of the national economy.
- Overall, the problem in manufacturing was a lack of... for the next generation, and a concurrent lack of innovation that left British industry to stagnate.
- In the 1850s, limited liability turned investors into ..., wich limited vulnerability, rather than partners, who were vulnerable to personal bankruptcy.
- 1852,62,57,67 - ...in the economy, otherwise steady growth with annual rate of 3 percent
- In late 19th - early 20th centurymany countries began to adopt ...(The neo-mercantilist stance conflates economic and national interests) policies that included protective tariffs, Britain's strict adherence to free trade put it at a disadvantage in international trade
- And while Britain was still suffering strains that were the result of uncontrolled urbanization and industrialization, a number of Factory Acts (in ... and 1874) ameliorated the worst abuses.
- The second important event of 1851 was the Great Exhibition, an enormous ...that showcased the industrial and technical abilities of many nations. Organized by ...and other members of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture, and Commerce, it was intended as a display of Britain's supremacy on the world stage.
- No wonder Disraeli famously claimed in Sybil, or the ... that England had become "two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy
- Much of the iron industry was centered in ..., Scotland.
- In 1844 Parliament mandated that all railway companies provide penny-per-mile third-class service on all of their lines, and in the 1860s ...were introduced
- The period between...was one of stagnation, followed by a degree of recovery from 1896 until the start of World War I.
- One of the most famous arguments about late-Victorian economic failure is Martin Weiner's. ...argues that economic failure had cultural causes: rather than focusing on the skills and long hours at work that had made them prosperous, middle-class businessmen aspired to an...that was at odds with a middle-class work ethic.
- German factory owner Friedrich Engels, who would go on to write The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx (1818-1883), wrote in his book on T... that working-class Manchester was a mass of "filth, ruin,...
- Another Committee, this one convened in ..., the Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), to study working conditions in the mines
- The period from 1851 until 1873 was a time of economic growth accompanied by social stability. It is sometimes called a period of...
- One point of tension during the early Victorian period was the reintroduction in ..., the first ever imposed outside of wartime, by Tory Prime Minister .... The tax was introduced as a three-year measure; it was extended to aid with funding of railways, and though theoretically temporary even today has been collected ever since. Peel had originally opposed an income tax, but turned to it when faced with empty government coffers and a large deficit.
- As coal and iron became important....and building material, mining - principally of coal for steam power and iron for steel - did too.
- In 1832 a Parliamentary Committee led by MP ...(1780-1835) interviewed child factory workers.
- As a result of these problems, a debate arose about the "Condition of England," which intensified during the Hungry Forties. The term was coined by ... (1795-1881), one of the major thinkers of the Victorian era, in an 1839 essay on Chartism.
- Reformer.... Enquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain revealed that rapid and unregulated industrialization produced enormous, dirty, unhealthy cities and industrial areas in which thousands of men, women, and children worked extremely long hours under dangerous conditions for low pay and lived without sufficient space or adequate sanitation.