The Civil, Political, and Mechanical History of the Framework-knitters, in Europe and America: Including a Review of the Political State and Condition of the People of England, and an Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Machinery for Superseding Human Labour, in the Various Manufactures of Europe, Since the Fifteenth Century, Exhibiting the True and Real Cause of the Present Convulsed State of the Western World |
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