Evidence: | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the exploitation of labour and class conflict. To this The Descent of Man added "the great idea of human freedom... It brought out the idea that whether our children were with or without shoes was due to poverty arising from the administration of society".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Dunfermline | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | James Clunie |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1889 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | housepainter |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Adam Smith |
Title: | Wealth of Nations |
Genre: | Politics, economics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4285 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 300 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 300, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4285, accessed: 23 March 2023 |
See James Clunie 'Labour is my Faith', pp.30-31, no further ref. traceable in Rose |
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