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Common terms and phrasesagriculture already areas aristocracy average balance of payments banks became Britain British economy British industry Britons capital capitalist Chartist cities coal competitive Conservatism Corn Laws cotton decline Depression developed domestic E. P. Thompson early earnings economists eighteenth century employment engineering England English enterprise especially expansion expenditure exports factory farming foreign Germany Gross domestic product growth home market important income increasingly industrial economy Industrial Revolution investment iron labour labour movement laissez-faire Lancashire land less living London mainly major manufacture mass ment merely middle class million modern movement Napoleonic Wars nineteenth century output overseas Party perhaps period pioneer political Poor Law population production profits railways rise Scotland Scots Second World sector slump social society steel textiles third trade unions traditional transformation transport twentieth century Victorian wages Wales Welsh workers working-class world economy Bibliographic information
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