Our Mother Earth: A Short Statement of the Case for Land Nationalisation (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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One gleam of sunshine there was, however, something over a hundred years ago, on the eve of the introduction of machinery and the final swoop on the common lands. Cloth being all made by hand could not be made fast enough, and gave employment to any number of weavers, who, making their own piece of cloth with the aid of their family, and generally being surrounded with a few acres of land, lived in considerable comfort. Prosperity in trade had, in fact, for the moment checked the power of the landowning classes to keep wages down to starvation point, just as it does in the case of skilled labour at present. But there were other contributing causes as well at this period. There had been great improvements in agriculture, and much labour was required and money spent on the large estates to improve them. So what with the great demand for their labour and their still-possessed common rights, the agricultural labourers shared the general prosperity, and wages were very much higher in most parts of the country than they are even now.

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