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... Tom at a young age, after the death of his wife, Barton tackles depression and begins to involve himself in the Chartist movement connected with the trade unions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barton...

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... head start over Kino and is still leading the Asian derby in finance and trade. Again, the Asian intelligence and work ethic have pushed it far pas... ...or farmers, the conductors on busses, and many of the jobs of the building trades. Increased technology had given us better building materials and c... ...rs and carpenters were no longer needed. The same thing happened in other trades. Most printing jobs were done from a computer disk--not from typese... ...all. We opted for the basics. . “Ask our citizens whether they would trade our high quality schools, health care and incomes for more gum chewi... ...e United Nations and the Council of Europe or the European Union are such unions of countries. “In 1998 the Council of Europe amended the Con...

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............................................................... 164 Frankie’s Trade ........................................................................ ...ith a snap to it for to snap round the slave’s neck. They used to do a big trade in slave-rings at the Forge here, and ship them to all parts of Old E... ... the mistress—silver for the maid! Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.’ ‘Good!’ said the Baron, sitting in his hall, ‘But Iron—Cold Iron—is... ...How very little since things were made Things have altered in the building trade. A year ago, come the middle o’ March, We was building flats near the... ... very little since things was made Things have altered in the shipwright’s trade. In Blackwall Basin yesterday A China barque re-fitting lay, When a f... ...e’s but next-above-fool to the man that can’t do nothin’. That’s where the Unions make their mistake.’ ‘My thought to the very dot.’ Dan heard Hal sla... ...p his tight- hosed leg. ‘I’ve suffered ‘in my time from these same Guilds— Unions, d’you call ‘em? All their precious talk of the myster- ies of their... ...ke me, you’ve found yourself hin- dered by those—Guilds, did you call ‘em?—Unions, we say.’ ‘You may say so!’ Hal pointed to a white scar on his cheek... ...ned to- wards Hal—’if a man has his private spite laid up against you, the Unions give him his excuse for workin’ it off.’ ‘Well I know it,’said Hal. ...

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...is speech into the common pattern. By his own account he was both strong and skilful in his trade. A few years back, he had been married and after a f... ...scussed the probable duration of the voyage, we exchanged pieces of information, naming our trades, what we hoped to find in the new world, or what we... ...what indistinct and childish hope. We had a father and son who made a pair of Jacks-of-all- trades. It was the son who sang the ‘Death of Nelson’ unde... ... was the son who sang the ‘Death of Nelson’ under such contrarious circumstances. He was by trade a shearer of ship plates; but he could touch the org... ... but would pick the subject to the bone, without once relinquishing a point. An engineer by trade, Mackay believed in the unlimited per- fectibility o... ...mparison with the great historical cycles—has so separated their thoughts and ways that not unions, not mutual dangers, nor steamers, nor railways, no...

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...face. The halo of glory that a fortune made in business gives to a retired tradesman sat on his brow, and stamped him as one of the elect of Paris—at ... ...satisfaction, and hope dawned in succession without disguise on his stupid tradesman’s face. He looked at himself in the glass over an old clock of th... ...ot have much to complain of—” “Ah! there we are again, madame! Yes, I am a tradesman, a shopkeeper, a retail dealer in almond-paste, eau-de-Portu- gal... ...enny Cadine and Josepha were both aged twenty when they first met,” the ex-tradesman went on, “the Baron had been playing the part of Louis XV. to Mad... ... have kept shop, and I know. There is no eye so quick as that of the Paris tradesman to detect real wealth from its sham.—You have no money,” he said,... ...ed by robbery. We shudder to think of 144 Cousin Betty the result of such unions from the three points of view of increasing crime, degeneracy of the... ...rie came to beg that Adeline would add the legalization of these voluntary unions to the other good works of which she was the instrument. One of the ...

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...e by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragment of the Wreck of the Ro... ...sionally had a screw in our hair over each cheek-bone with a slight Thief-flavour in it. Besides prowlers and idlers, we were mechanics, dock-labourer... ...n the knife in his leathern girdle; he was looking over bul- warks, all eyes and hair; he was standing by at the shoot of the Cunard steamer, off to-m... ...There were at least a score of windows in its high roof alone; how many in its grotesque front, I soon gave up counting. The owner was a shopkeeper, b... ...ions are threadbare, and the whole of the church furni- ture is in a very advanced stage of exhaustion. We are three old women (habitual), two young l... ...rathful expounder who bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus. Similarly, in the reading provided for the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Lo... ...ngly imbued with a sense of their responsibility. But what one set of men can do in this wise, another set of men can do; and this is a noble example ...

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...t out-sharpened all her other sharpness. ‘You can’t tell me the name of my trade, I’ll be bound,’ she said, after taking several of these observations... ...r-mats?’ ‘A schoolmaster, and says dinner-mats! I’ll give you a clue to my trade, in a game of forfeits. I love my love with a B because she’s Beautif... ... ‘You are sure to break it. All you children do.’ ‘But that makes good for trade, you know, Miss Wren,’ returned Eugene. ‘Much as people’s breaking pr... ...eaking promises and contracts and bargains of all sorts, makes good for my trade.’ ‘I don’t know about that,’ Miss Wren retorted; ‘but you had better ... ... of scorn. If I indicated such a programme to any wor- thy and intelligent tradesman of your town—nay, I will here be personal, and say Our town—what ... ...eerd that I’m a growing like the poor old people that they brick up in the Unions, as you may sometimes see when they let ‘em out of the four walls to...

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...of that first disenchantment, flees for ever. Again, the husband, in these unions, is usually a man, and the wife commonly enough a woman; and when th... ...cs?” “Nor that.” “Is it some language?” “Nay, it is no language.” “Is it a trade?” “Nor a trade neither.” “Why, then, what is’t?” “Indeed, sir, as a t... ...English blood like the sound of a trum- pet; and if the Indian Empire, the trade of London, and all the outward and visible ensigns of our greatness s... ...nile lyrical drama, surely of the most ancient Thespian model, wherein the trades of mankind are successively simulated to the running burthen “On a c...

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...brought with him a considerable wardrobe, the gorgeous outfit of a retired tradesman who denies him- self nothing. Mme. Vauquer’s astonished eyes behe... ...rs of age, who had looked scarce forty, the stout, comfortable, prosperous trades- man, with an almost bucolic air, and such a brisk demeanor that it ... ...had been twisted out of shape very neatly for a man that’s not used to the trade.” “Really? You don’t say so?” “Yes. One of my friends is expatriating... ...er lover, was a mystery. What was the secret tie that bound her to the old tradesman? This mystery he meant to penetrate, hoping by its means to gain ... ...forces of his nature, as he put the whole power of his brain into the corn trade. He had regarded his wife, the only daughter of a rich farmer of La B... ... austere moralist to frown. How many respect- able people contract similar unions! We deceive nobody; it is deception that makes a position humiliatin...

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...d down on the day of her wedding. Those who know the habits of the British tradesman are aware that he has gregarious propensities like any lord in th... .... The tiptop men of the society were two bachelors, and two as fashionable tradesmen as any in the town: Mr. Woolsey, from Stultz’s, of the famous hou... ...the world he hates and de- spises, it is a Madonna. “I’m not,” says he, “a tradesman— I’m a Hartist” (Mr. Eglantine was born in London)—”I’m a hartist... ...ntine has so often talked to me about, and attended by some of the tip-top tradesmen of the metropolis!” “There’s better men here than Mr. Eglantine,”... ... to meet him with pistols, which the latter declined, saying, justly, that trades- men had no business with such weapons; on this the tailor proposed ... ... of honourable exceptions to the case above hinted at, and knows many such unions in which it is the Frenchman who honours the English lady by marryin...

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...y well be; as generous illusions of friendship; as fair mementos of bygone unions, of those nights and suppers of the gods, when, lapped in the sym- p... ...ch as ours, richer than usual in two things, in Truths grown obsolete, and Trades grown obsolete,—what can the fool think but that it is all a Den of ... ... Smuggler. With courteous brevity, I signify my indifference to contraband trade, my humane intentions, yet strong wish to be pri- vate. In vain: the ... ...g to himself a suit of Leather. This man, the first of the Quakers, and by trade a Shoemaker, was one of those, to whom, under ruder or purer form, th... ...ut only spiders and unclean beetles, in horrid accumula- tion, drive their trade; and the mask still glares on you with its glass eyes, in ghastly aff... ... but does the Minnow understand the Ocean Tides and periodic Currents, the Trade-winds, and Monsoons, and Moon’s Eclipses; by all which the condition ...

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...l of sea water and a race of grimy bargemen brought the heavy materials of trade from the Pool thereby beneath the very feet of the workers. Faint and... ...h was natu- rally to keep property intact, the board clear for the game of trade. Just as the feudal concern had been to keep the board 115 H G Wells... ...house guards, and drain and cable guards, its hosts of land-workers. Their unions it did not fight, but it under- mined and betrayed and bought them. ... ...olds me. Let me learn more of that. Your aeronaut was saying there is some trades union objection to one’s learning.” “There is, I believe,” said Linc... ...eople in blue—. The proverb runs: ‘Blue canvas once and ever.’ The Company trades in their labour, and it has taken care to assure itself of the suppl... ...f all the great things; the aeronauts are privileged and rich, the closest trades union in the world, and so are the engineers of the wind vanes. We h...

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...tle under two thousand people, mostly en- gaged in agricultural work or in trades serving agriculture. There was a blacksmith, a saddler, a chemist, a... ...uld have found most of the old houses still as he had known them, the same trades a little improved and differentiated one from the other, the same ro... ...stead of wooden pegs, to achieve all sorts of mechanical possibilities, to trade more freely and manufacture on a larger scale, to send goods abroad i... ...f its worst contortions. Residential vil- las appeared occupied by retired tradesmen and widows, who esteemed the place healthy, and by others of a st... ...reported the proceedings of the local Bench and the local Board, compelled tradesmen who were interested in these affairs to advertise, used the epith... ...tra large size, specially made and very inconvenient.) And he hated T rade Unions because they interfered with his 124 The New Machiavelli autocratic... ...heir own prosperity and that circumambient poverty, and they knew of Trade Unions simply as disagreeable external things that upset my uncle’s temper....

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...p-post. When the weather was wet, he put up his umbrella over his stock in trade, not over himself; when the weather was dry , he furled that faded ar... ...rds these does Mr Wegg stump, but towards the poorer shops of small retail traders in commodities to eat and drink and keep folks warm, and of Italian... ...and out at all?’ ‘Never was so well in. Mr Wegg, I’m not only first in the trade, but I’m the trade. Y ou may go and buy a skeleton at the West End if... ...y young female relative of any distinguished gentleman engaged in the lime trade (which I cherish next to my life) being present, I think it might be ... ...owed (Mr Inspector having proposed as an ap- propriate sentiment ‘The lime trade!’) and Bob withdrew to report the commendations of the guests to Miss... ...eerd that I’m a growing like the poor old people that they brick up in the Unions, as you may sometimes see when they let ‘em out of the four walls to...

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...nd it often happens that by inheritance, by marriage, or by the chances of trade, he is gradually furnished with the means. Thus, to balance the ten- ... ... tion of drains, point out the proper sites for slaughter-houses and other trades which are a nuisance to the neighborhood. See the Act of June 7, 178... ...this new species of confederation has been the cause which has brought all Unions to Civil War, to sub- jection, or to a stagnant apathy , and the peo... ...m of commercial pro- hibition, and the South took up arms in favor of free trade, simply because the North is a manufacturing and the South an agricul... ...extent this privilege is tolerated. The question of the tariff, or of free trade, produced a great manifestation of party feeling in America; the tari... ...nsult together upon the means which were most fitted to promote freedom of trade. This proposal circulated in a few days from Maine to New Orleans by ... ...ed would not return to their original isolated condition, but that several unions would then be formed in the place of one. It is not my intention to ... ...It is not my intention to inquire into the principles upon which these new unions would probably be established, but merely to show what the causes ar...

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...en,” demanded Simon Giguet, “have good citi- zens like those of Arcis made trade and barter of the sacred mission of deputy?” It is impossible to repr... ... entered the Giguet house,” said Monsieur Martener, who was practising his trade as examining-judge by count- ing the electors. 31 Balzac “If Charles... ...anufactures of Reims, nearly all the hosiery of France—a very considerable trade—is manu- factured about T royes. The surrounding country, over a cir-... ...the consumer is an evil not confined to hosiery. It exists in al- most all trades, and increases the cost of merchandise by the amount of the profit e... ...ty, is, relatively, a rich town abounding in capital slowly amassed by its trade in hosiery. Monsieur Phileas Beauvisage was the Alexander, or, if you... ...ngen was the unpleasant and scarcely moral product of one of those immoral unions which find their issue in the life of a daughter, after years and sa...

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...ysterious claims claimed to be bought off at exorbitant rates; the T rades Unions of all the building trades lifted up collective voices; and a ring o... ... be bought off at exorbitant rates; the T rades Unions of all the building trades lifted up collective voices; and a ring of dealers in all sorts of b... ... the hundred thou- sands; it swept over boundaries and turned the world of trade into a world of cataclysms: no wonder mankind hated it. And since it ... ...antic need. He knew nothing of money, this monstrous simpleton, nothing of trade, nothing of the complex pretences upon which the social fabric of the... ...all times, and that day it was unusually quiet: scarcely a cab, scarcely a tradesman’s cart passed all that morning. Now and then men went by—with- ou...

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...ready to find coin- cidences, sympathies, hidden gushes of feeling, mystic unions of the soul, and what not, in every single cir- cumstance that occur... ...ast in an Oldborough manu- factory, these shoes were made by an Oldborough trades- man, this heart first beat in Oldborough town, and pray Heaven may ... ...” Heeltap, who was generally drunk, fairly burst into tears, and the grave tradesmen and Whig gentry, who had dined with the Member at his inn, and ac... ...gh was an in- considerable place—that the inhabitants thereof were chiefly tradespeople, not of refined habits—that Mr. Scully himself had only for th...

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...me able editor; and more. Bibliopolic Momoro, Typographic Pruhomme see new trades opening. Collot d’Herbois, tear- ing a passion to rags, pauses on th... ...ut any sort of matter: in their towns, the common people beset the passing trader; demanding to hear from what regions he came, what things he got acq... ...ng remembered of men. Very strange Assemblages, Sanhedrims, Amphictyonics, Trades Unions, Ecumenic Coun- cils, Parliaments and Congresses, have met to... ...mbered of men. Very strange Assemblages, Sanhedrims, Amphictyonics, Trades Unions, Ecumenic Coun- cils, Parliaments and Congresses, have met together ... ...iot of grains, is trampled to death by a hungry exasperated People. What a trade this of Mayor, in these times! Mayor of Saint-Denis hung at the Lante... ...s Section, from Provincial Patriot Towns; From Alencon, Briancon, and ‘the Traders at the Fair of Beaucaire. ’ Or what of these? On the 3rd of August,...

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...riginally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote that book in ord... ...strial absurdity of Local Option. The Utopians will certainly control this trade, and as certainly punish personal excesses. Public drunkenness (as di... ...atriotisms and politics, and their obsession has always been international trade. Here in Utopia the World State cuts that away from beneath their fee... ...roup- ings, of neighbours and neighbourhood, of companies, as- sociations, unions, secret and public societies, religious group- *But see Gidding’s Pr... ...ly suspected assumptions upon which it rested. The facts were ignored that trade is a bye- product and not an essential factor in social life, that pr... ...opia did not at any rate go to that. He spoke, too, of the regula- tion of unions, of people who were not allowed to have chil- dren, of complicated r... ...y such an island should not build and order for itself and manufacture and trade. “Your ways are not our ways,” the World State will say; “but here is... ...order to secure good births, and secondly good home conditions, that these unions should not be free, nor promiscuous, nor practically universal throu... ...alance of social advantage is certainly on the side of much more permanent unions, on the side of an arrangement that, subject to ample provisions for...