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... factories , children worked fourteen hours a day because the Municipal Council , factory - owners them- selves , refused to pass a Factory Act . For many years you could not catch a taxi in Shanghai for they might have offered ...
... factories , children worked fourteen hours a day because the Municipal Council , factory - owners them- selves , refused to pass a Factory Act . For many years you could not catch a taxi in Shanghai for they might have offered ...
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... factory and we are forced to buy silk with it . This is a pattern since last year apparently because business isn't too good and we have to help improve sales . Yet even the complete wages are not enough to live on let alone half ...
... factory and we are forced to buy silk with it . This is a pattern since last year apparently because business isn't too good and we have to help improve sales . Yet even the complete wages are not enough to live on let alone half ...
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... factory , noted : ' Half the children have already the blue line in their gums which is a symptom of lead - poisoning . Few of them will survive longer than a year or eighteen months . In scissors factories you can see arms and legs ...
... factory , noted : ' Half the children have already the blue line in their gums which is a symptom of lead - poisoning . Few of them will survive longer than a year or eighteen months . In scissors factories you can see arms and legs ...
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A Simple Equation The Rise of a Great City ΙΟ | 10 |
The White Russians | 30 |
The Order of the Brilliant Jade | 68 |
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