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A century ago the Servile State was no comic figment, but a reality. The mass of the people of Great Britain were dependent upon the demands or the whims of the capitalist, to a degree almost incredible in these days, for then means of life and for their manner of living. And as a matter of fact, this dependence meant for the bulk of the population a condition of squalor, wretchedness and degradation from which the ordinary working-man of to-day would shrink as from a living death. Parliamentary representation was the monopoly of a handful of privileged personages; nine-tenths of the population could neither read newspapers nor use a pen; even the elementary human right of combination to resist the enslavement effected by abnormally long hours, low wages and deplorable conditions of employment, was, by law, denied to the workers.
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A century ago the Servile State was no comic figment, but a reality. The mass of the people of Great Britain were dependent upon the demands or the whims of the capitalist, to a degree almost incredible in these days, for then means of life and for their manner of living. And as a matter of fact, this dependence meant for the bulk of the population a condition of squalor, wretchedness and degradation from which the ordinary working-man of to-day would shrink as from a living death. Parliamentary representation was the monopoly of a handful of privileged personages; nine-tenths of the population could neither read newspapers nor use a pen; even the elementary human right of combination to resist the enslavement effected by abnormally long hours, low wages and deplorable conditions of employment, was, by law, denied to the workers.
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Sidney Webb (1859-1947) and Beatrice Potter Webb (1858-1943) researched independently before their marriage in 1892, and for the next fifty years worked together in a remarkable partnership. They founded the London School of Economics in 1895. David Martin teaches Social History at the University of Sheffield.
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