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An edition of An end to poverty? (2004)

An end to poverty?

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Discusses the life of scientist James Watt, inventor of the separate-condenser steam engine, and focuses on re-discovering steam, types of steam engines, manufacturing and marketing a steam engine.

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Columbia University Press
Language
English
Pages
278

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History, Poverty, Steam-engines, Watt, james, 1736-1819, Steam-engines, history, Poverty, government policy, Social problems, literary collections, Europe, social policy, Europe, social conditions
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An end to poverty?: a historical debate
2004, Columbia University Press
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An end to poverty?: a historical debate
2004, Profile Books
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An End to Poverty?
July 8, 2004, Profile Books Ltd
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Edition Notes

Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-269) and index

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
TJ461.M36 2004, HC79.P6J66 2005, TJ461 .M36 2002, HC79.P6 J66 2005, HC79.P6 J66 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 278 p. ;
Number of pages
278

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17178309M
ISBN 10
0231131720, 0231137826
LCCN
2003051621, 2006295307
OCLC/WorldCat
62239438, 52182630
LibraryThing
7027426
Goodreads
159667
9855

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OL5593548W

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"In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed the bringing of poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the Revolution in France and the promise of the new international economy, Paine and Condorcet argued that all citizens could be protected against the predictable hazards of poverty and insecurity. This was the founding moment of social democracy." "But fear and anger greeted this challenge to age old religious and political attitudes, and new forms of conservatism, of political economy and of Christianity hastened to consign this programme to oblivion. Soon the strength of this reaction was reinforced by unanticipated anxieties about the future of work and livelihood in the newly globalised economy. The result was the enduring triumph of a harsh policy of laisser faire individualism in state and society. It meant that the formation of the early twentieth-century welfare state owed little or nothing to the revolutionary hopes of a hundred years before."--BOOK JACKET

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