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... interest they are making history . An introductory chapter serves as an apology for the title and scope of this book . It makes no pretension to deal exhaustively or even adequately with any special event of the nineteenth century ...
... interest they are making history . An introductory chapter serves as an apology for the title and scope of this book . It makes no pretension to deal exhaustively or even adequately with any special event of the nineteenth century ...
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... interests of the whole community . Our social system must have an ethical basis . At least since Bismarck prevailed upon the German Reichstag to enact measures to insure workingmen against sickness , accident , unemployment , and old ...
... interests of the whole community . Our social system must have an ethical basis . At least since Bismarck prevailed upon the German Reichstag to enact measures to insure workingmen against sickness , accident , unemployment , and old ...
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... interest and imme- diate importance to every student of comtemporary history and politics so portentous for the future that its extent and com- plexity should not stagger us ; there is but an increased need of a dispassionate and ...
... interest and imme- diate importance to every student of comtemporary history and politics so portentous for the future that its extent and com- plexity should not stagger us ; there is but an increased need of a dispassionate and ...
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... interests . In time , however , as the profits of their estates were invested more and more in commercial and industrial enterprises , the former friction tended to disappear , and the whole aristocracy , whether founded originally on ...
... interests . In time , however , as the profits of their estates were invested more and more in commercial and industrial enterprises , the former friction tended to disappear , and the whole aristocracy , whether founded originally on ...
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... interest or economic principles restrained them from applying remedies ; and it was Liberals quite as much as Tories who ridi- culed and suppressed the Chartist movement . In their repugnance to a wider democracy and to state action for ...
... interest or economic principles restrained them from applying remedies ; and it was Liberals quite as much as Tories who ridi- culed and suppressed the Chartist movement . In their repugnance to a wider democracy and to state action for ...
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Page 98 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 100 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority — 1. Uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property ; or, 2.
Page 86 - An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable on the ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract of employment or that it is an interference with the trade, business, or employment of some other person, or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital or his labor as he wills.
Page 47 - If in any employment to which this Act applies personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman. his employer shall, subject as herein-after mentioned, be liable to pay compensation in accordance with the First Schedule to this Act.
Page 48 - When the injury was caused by the personal negligence or wilful act of the employer, or of some person for whose act or default the employer is responsible, nothing in this act shall affect any civil liability of the employer, but in that case the workman may, at his option, either claim compensation under this act or take...
Page 535 - ... the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Page 68 - Provided that where by reason of the shortness of the time during which the workman has been in the employment of his employer, or the casual nature...
Page 408 - MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties herein-after mentioned...
Page 88 - Nothing in this Act shall enable any court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for the breach of any of the following agreements, namely, 1.
Page 516 - ... of a casual nature and who are employed otherwise than for the purpose of the employer's trade or business...