item: #1 of 7
          id: 10126
      author: Waugh, Edwin
       title: Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine
        date: None
       words: 63990
      flesch: 81
     summary: There were also very great differences of age and physical condition amongst them--old men and consumptive-looking lads, hardly out of their teens. I know that there are many poor people yet in Lancashire who use decoctions of herbs instead of tea--mint and balm are the favourite herbs for this purpose; but I could not imagine what this herb beer could be, at a halfpenny a bottle, unless it was made of nettles.
    keywords: 'em; abeawt; addition; air; appearance; arms; ashamed; aw'll; aw'm; aw've; bad; bare; bed; best; better; big; bin; bit; bit o; bits; blackburn; bless; board; body; books; bread; broken; business; busy; care; case; certain; chairman; chapter; charity; cheap; cheer; childer; children; circumstances; city; class; classes; clean; clogs; close; clothes; clothing; coal; cold; comfort; committee; common; companion; company; condition; connot; continued; conversation; corner; cottage; cotton; countenance; country; course; court; crowd; cry; curious; daily; dark; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; death; deawn; decent; destitution; different; difficulty; dinner; dirty; distress; districts; door; doubt; easy; eawt; edge; employment; england; evening; extent; eyes; face; factory; fair; faith; fall; families; family; famine; far; father; feeling; feet; fellow; fine; fire; floor; folk; food; free; friend; fro; fund; furniture; geet; general; gentlemen; getten; getting; girls; glad; gloomy; god; gone; good; gooin; gray; great; green; guardians; half; hand; hard; head; healthy; heart; heawse; help; hitherto; home; honest; hoo; hope; hour; house; household; human; hunger; husband; i'th; ill; income; increase; industry; inside; instances; intelligent; interesting; irish; jackson; job; john; jone; kind; kingdom; kitchen; know; labour; lad; lads; lancashire; land; lane; large; left; letters; life; like; likely; little; live; living; local; long; longer; looking; lord; loss; love; lower; making; manchester; manner; market; mary; master; mayor; meal; means; meeting; member; men; messrs; middle; mill; mind; minutes; miserable; missis; money; months; moor; morning; mother; mun; music; narrow; national; nature; nay; neaw; need; neet; neighbourhood; neighbours; new; noan; nobbut; nought; number; o'clock; o'er; o'th; old; old man; old woman; ony; open; operatives; order; owd; painful; pair; pale; paper; parish; parts; past; pay; penny; people; persons; piece; place; plenty; pointed; poor; poor woman; poorest; population; possible; pounds; poverty; present; preston; pride; private; property; public; quaint; quarter; quiet; rain; rates; ready; relief; relieved; rent; report; right; road; room; round; sad; savings; saying; scene; scholes; share; shillings; shoon; shop; short; sich; sick; simple; sin; sir; sixpence; small; song; soul; soup; square; starvation; starving; state; stone; story; stranger; street; strong; stuff; subject; subscriptions; suffering; sufficient; summat; sure; sweet; table; tak; talk; tall; tattered; thae; thee; they'n; things; thoose; thought; thousands; tickets; time; town; trade; trifle; trouble; turn; unemployed; upo; usual; view; visitor; wages; walk; wall; wandering; want; ward; wark; warm; washing; waugh; way; we'n; wealth; weather; weaver; week; weel; wet; white; whoam; wid; wife; wigan; wild; window; winter; wish; woman; wooden; words; work; workhouse; working; world; worn; worse; wur; yard; years; yon; young
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: 13322
      author: Barnard, William Francis
       title: The Tongues of Toil And Other Poems
        date: None
       words: 3321
      flesch: 89
     summary: We have no care for the deeds you dare, For the force of your armies hurled; You stand but few, and we challenge you-- Strong men of all the world! And the price they fling when men must swing, Which makes a goodly sum; For his reason waits on the law's black hates,
    keywords: black; blood; care; day; dead; deed; earth; face; free; gold; hands; hangman; hate; heart; hope; labor; life; light; long; love; man; men; nay; power; red; rest; stand; strong; tears; thee; thou; thought; time; toil; tongues; truth; world; yea; young
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: 34012
      author: Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor)
       title: Labor and Freedom: The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs
        date: None
       words: 41947
      flesch: 68
     summary: Political parties are responsive to the interests of those who finance them. Theodore Roosevelt is swift to brand other men who even venture to disagree with him as liars.
    keywords: action; administration; american; anthony; appeal; army; average; barclay; battle; best; better; blood; body; boys; brave; brothers; brown; brutal; bryan; campaign; candidates; capitalist; capitalist class; capitalist party; capitalist system; cause; centuries; century; certain; change; character; chicago; children; christ; citizens; city; class; class party; class political; class struggle; classes; close; cold; coming; common; company; comrades; conditions; conscious; control; convention; coppock; corrupt; corruption; country; course; court; crime; cruel; day; days; dead; death; demand; democracy; democratic; democratic party; development; difference; earth; economic; education; edwin; efficient; election; emancipation; equal; existence; expression; extent; eyes; face; fact; family; far; fate; fellow; fire; food; forces; free; freedom; friends; funds; gallows; god; good; government; great; greatest; ground; half; hand; harper; harriman; haywood; heart; heroes; history; hold; home; hour; house; human; humanity; hunger; ignorance; industrial; industry; inspired; interests; issue; jail; jesus; job; john; justice; kind; labor; land; later; law; lawrence; leader; life; lips; little; lives; long; look; louis; love; machinery; making; man; manhood; masses; master; means; members; men; mender; message; millions; mills; milwaukee; miners; miss; money; moral; movement; moyer; mrs; murder; nation; national; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; office; official; old; order; organization; organized; overthrow; ownership; parties; party; past; people; pettibone; place; platform; plenty; point; political; political party; politicians; politics; poor; possible; poverty; power; present; president; principles; private; production; progressive; protest; purpose; question; race; rags; railroad; reason; red; reform; relief; republican; republican party; revolutionary; revolutionary party; rich; right; roosevelt; rule; salem; self; service; sex; single; slavery; slaves; small; socialism; socialist party; society; solidarity; sons; soul; speech; spirit; stand; states; street; strike; struggle; suffering; support; supreme; susan; system; taft; tariff; theodore; theodore roosevelt; things; thousands; time; today; tools; trade; train; true; trust; truth; turn; umbrella; union; united; unity; victims; victory; vital; voice; votes; wage; want; war; washington; way; wealth; white; women; words; workers; working; working class; workingmen; world; years; york; young
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: 4529
      author: Allen, Grant
       title: Biographies of Working Men
        date: None
       words: 48123
      flesch: 62
     summary: He had been farmer, carpenter, canal driver, and student; he had seen the primitive life of the forest, and the more civilized society of the Atlantic shore; he had taught in schools in many states; he had supported himself for years by his own labours; and now, at an age when many young men are, as a rule, only just beginning life on their own account, he had practically raised himself from his own class into the class of educated and cultivated gentlemen. Many working men have raised themselves by their own exertions to a position of wealth and dignity far surpassing his; few indeed have conferred so many benefits upon untold thousands of their fellow-men.
    keywords: aberdeen; able; account; acquaintance; american; animals; anxious; art; artistic; astronomer; attention; bad; banff; bare; bath; beautiful; beauty; beginning; ben; best; better; big; birds; bit; books; boy; bridge; broad; brother; building; business; busy; canal; canova; capital; care; carolina; certain; character; cherbourg; childish; children; church; circumstances; class; clay; close; coal; cold; collection; college; colliery; comfort; common; constant; construction; cost; cottage; country; course; creatures; cutter; darlington; day; days; deal; death; deep; degree; desire; determined; different; dignity; direction; distinguished; doubt; drawings; duke; eager; early; earnest; earth; easy; education; edward; employment; end; energy; engaged; engine; engineer; engineering; england; english; eskdale; exquisite; eye; fact; factory; fair; fame; family; famous; farm; fashion; father; favourite; fellow; fields; fish; foot; form; fortune; france; francois; french; friends; future; garfield; general; genius; geordie; george; george stephenson; german; gibson; good; grand; great; greatest; ground; half; hand; hanover; happy; hard; having; heart; help; herschel; high; higher; hiram; history; home; honest; honour; hours; house; human; humble; idea; immense; important; institute; interest; invention; iron; jack; james; john; killingworth; kind; kindly; knowledge; labour; labouring; lad; large; later; latin; lessons; life; like; lincoln; line; little; livelihood; liverpool; lives; living; local; locomotive; london; long; look; love; magnificent; main; making; man; manchester; marble; mason; master; means; mechanical; men; mere; military; millet; mind; model; moment; money; months; morning; mother; music; native; natural; naturalist; nature; near; necessary; new; night; noble; north; number; object; ohio; old; order; ordinary; origin; painter; paris; particular; pay; peasant; people; perfect; period; person; pictures; piece; place; planet; pleased; pleasure; point; poor; position; possible; post; pounds; power; practical; present; president; principle; proud; public; pupil; purpose; railway; rank; rate; reading; real; regiment; regular; remarkable; result; return; rich; rise; river; roads; robert; rome; room; roscoe; rough; royal; run; save; school; schoolmaster; science; scientific; scotch; scotland; sculptor; sea; second; self; sense; service; set; shepherd; shoemaker; short; similar; simple; single; sir; skill; slavery; small; social; society; spare; spite; splendid; stars; states; statue; stephenson; stone; strange; strong; student; studio; study; subject; success; successful; summer; sure; system; tam; task; taste; telescope; telford; thing; thomas; thought; time; town; trade; true; turn; turning; united; useful; usual; view; village; visit; wages; want; way; ways; wealth; week; welsh; western; wide; wife; wild; william; winter; wonderful; work; working; workman; world; wright; years; young; young man
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: 5887
      author: Vaknin, Samuel
       title: The Labor Divide
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: 86
     summary: RTF is Rich Text Format, and is readable in nearly any modern word processing program. Please see the corresponding RTF file for this eBook.
    keywords: rtf
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: 6492
      author: Allen, Grant
       title: Biographies of Working Men
        date: None
       words: 48126
      flesch: 62
     summary: He had been farmer, carpenter, canal driver, and student; he had seen the primitive life of the forest, and the more civilized society of the Atlantic shore; he had taught in schools in many states; he had supported himself for years by his own labours; and now, at an age when many young men are, as a rule, only just beginning life on their own account, he had practically raised himself from his own class into the class of educated and cultivated gentlemen. Many working men have raised themselves by their own exertions to a position of wealth and dignity far surpassing his; few indeed have conferred so many benefits upon untold thousands of their fellow-men.
    keywords: aberdeen; able; account; acquaintance; american; animals; anxious; art; artistic; astronomer; attention; bad; banff; bare; bath; beautiful; beauty; beginning; ben; best; better; big; birds; bit; books; boy; bridge; broad; brother; building; business; busy; canal; canova; capital; care; carolina; certain; character; cherbourg; childish; children; church; circumstances; class; clay; close; coal; cold; collection; college; colliery; comfort; common; constant; construction; cost; cottage; country; course; creatures; cutter; darlington; day; days; deal; death; deep; degree; desire; determined; different; dignity; direction; distinguished; doubt; drawings; duke; eager; early; earnest; earth; easy; education; edward; employment; end; energy; engaged; engine; engineer; engineering; england; english; eskdale; exquisite; eye; fact; factory; fair; fame; family; famous; farm; fashion; father; favourite; fellow; fields; fish; foot; form; fortune; france; francois; french; friends; future; garfield; general; genius; geordie; george; george stephenson; german; gibson; good; grand; great; greatest; ground; half; hand; hanover; happy; hard; having; heart; help; herschel; high; higher; hiram; history; home; honest; honour; hours; house; human; humble; idea; immense; important; institute; interest; invention; iron; jack; james; john; killingworth; kind; kindly; knowledge; labour; labouring; lad; large; later; latin; learning; lessons; life; like; lincoln; line; little; livelihood; liverpool; lives; living; local; locomotive; london; long; look; love; magnificent; main; making; man; manchester; marble; mason; master; means; mechanical; men; mere; military; millet; mind; model; modern; moment; money; months; morning; mother; music; native; natural; naturalist; nature; near; necessary; new; night; noble; north; number; object; ohio; old; order; ordinary; origin; painter; paris; particular; pay; peasant; people; perfect; period; person; pictures; piece; place; planet; pleased; pleasure; point; poor; position; possible; post; power; practical; present; president; principle; proud; public; pupil; purpose; railway; rank; rate; reading; real; regiment; regular; remarkable; result; return; rich; rise; river; roads; robert; rome; room; roscoe; rough; royal; run; save; school; schoolmaster; science; scientific; scotch; scotland; sculptor; sea; second; self; sense; service; set; shepherd; shoemaker; short; similar; simple; single; sir; skill; slavery; small; social; society; spare; spite; splendid; stars; states; statue; stephenson; stone; strange; strong; student; studio; study; subject; success; successful; summer; sure; system; tam; task; taste; telescope; telford; thing; thomas; thought; time; town; trade; true; turn; turning; united; useful; usual; view; village; visit; wages; want; way; ways; wealth; week; welsh; western; wide; wife; wild; william; winter; wonderful; work; working; workman; world; wright; years; young; young man
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: 8000
      author: Carey, Henry Charles
       title: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished
        date: None
       words: 174124
      flesch: 58
     summary: From year to year the millers would become greater men, and the farmers and labourers smaller men, and step by step all would find themselves becoming slaves to the caprices of the owners of a little machinery, the whole cost of which would scarcely exceed _the daily loss_ resulting from the existence of the system. The difficulty, however, is that wages are very low, and thus there is but little inducement for the immigration of men from the interior, or from this country.[170] Much progress has thus been made, yet it is small compared with what, might be made could the republic offer greater inducements to settlers from the interior, or from this country; that is, could it raise the value of man, ridding itself of _cheap labour_.
    keywords: abandonment; abound; absence; absenteeism; absolute; abundant; accordance; account; acquire; acres; action; activity; adam; adoption; advance; advantage; affairs; afford; africa; agents; agriculture; aid; america; annual; annum; anxious; articles; artisan; association; attempt; attention; attorney; author; average; bad; bank; bed; belgium; benefit; bengal; best; better; births; black; bread; bringing; britain; british; bushels; business; buy; calcutta; campbell; capable; capital; capitalist; care; carolina; carrying; case; cattle; causes; cent; centralization; century; certain; chapter; character; charge; cheap; cheap labour; cheapening; cheaper; chief; children; china; circumstances; cities; city; civilization; civilized; class; classes; clear; close; cloth; clothing; coal; coffee; colonies; colony; combination; combined; command; commerce; commercial; commission; commodities; commodity; common; community; company; compel; compelling; compensation; competition; condition; consequence; considerable; consideration; consolidation; constant; consumer; consumption; contrary; control; conversion; converting; corn; cost; cotton; countries; country; countrymen; course; crime; crop; crown; cuba; cultivation; cultivators; daily; date; day; days; dear; death; decay; declared; decline; degree; demand; denmark; dependent; description; desire; destruction; different; difficulty; diminished; diminution; direction; disease; distance; distant; distinguished; distress; districts; diversification; divided; division; dollars; domestic; door; doubt; duties; duty; early; earth; east; economy; education; effect; effort; emancipation; emigration; empire; employment; enabled; enabling; england; english; english labour; english land; enjoyment; enormous; enriched; enslaved; equal; established; establishment; estates; estimate; europe; evidence; evil; examination; example; excess; exchange; exercise; exertion; exhausted; exhaustion; existence; expense; export; extensive; extent; extract; extraordinary; eyes; facility; fact; factories; factory; fair; families; family; famine; far; farmer; farms; fed; feeling; feet; fellow; fertile; field; fine; flax; flour; following; food; foreign; form; fourth; france; freedom; french; friends; furnaces; furnished; future; general; gentleman; germany; god; good; government; grain; great; great britain; great land; greater; greatest; gross; ground; growth; habits; half; hand; harmony; head; heavy; high; higher; highest; hindoo; history; hold; home; hope; hours; houses; human; hundreds; husbands; ibid; idea; idle; import; important; importation; impoverished; improved; improvement; improving; increase; india; indies; industry; inhabitants; injurious; inquire; institutions; intellectual; intelligent; intercourse; interest; internal; ireland; irish; iron; island; jamaica; journal; kind; kingdom; knowledge; known; labour; labourer; land; land produce; landlord; language; large; law; laws; leave; leaving; left; length; life; light; like; likely; limited; little; live; liverpool; living; local; london; long; longer; looks; loom; lord; loss; machinery; maintenance; making; man; manchester; manner; manufacture; manufacturing; manure; market; mass; master; materials; mcculloch; means; measures; mechanic; men; merchants; mere; middle; miles; millions; mind; misery; mode; modern; moment; money; monopoly; months; moral; movement; national; nations; native; natural; nature; near; nearer; necessary; necessity; need; negro; negroes; neighbourhood; neighbours; new; north; northern; number; numerous; object; obtain; occasion; occupation; officers; old; ones; operations; opinion; opium; opposed; order; owner; page; parents; parts; passage; past; pay; payment; peasant; peasantry; people; perfect; period; perish; persons; pestilence; picture; place; plantation; planter; plough; point; policy; political; poor; poor people; poorer; population; portion; portugal; position; possession; possible; potatoes; pounds; poverty; power; powerful; present; price; principal; private; proceeds; process; produce; producers; production; products; profit; profitable; progress; proof; property; proportion; proprietors; provinces; provisions; public; purchase; purpose; quantity; quarter; question; race; raising; rapid; rate; raw; reader; real; reason; recent; reduced; reference; regard; regular; rent; resort; resources; respect; result; return; revenue; reverse; review; rich; richest; rights; rise; river; roads; room; rude; ruin; rule; rum; russia; said; sale; salt; saw; schools; science; scotland; second; secure; seeking; self; selling; separate; serfs; services; set; share; shillings; ships; shoes; short; silk; similar; single; situation; size; slave; slave labour; slave trade; slavery; small; smaller; smith; social; society; soil; sole; south; southern; spain; speech; spindle; spot; stand; standard; starvation; starving; state; steady; steam; step; stock; stone; streets; strength; strong; subject; subsistence; sufficient; sugar; supplies; supply; support; surface; surplus; swamps; system; tax; taxation; taxes; tenants; tendency; tending; terms; territory; things; thought; thousands; time; tobacco; total; towns; trade; transportation; traveller; true; truth; turkey; unable; union; united; universal; unlimited; valuable; value; vast; view; village; virginia; vol; wages; want; war; waste; water; way; weak; wealth; week; west; wheat; white; wife; wine; wives; women; wool; woollen; words; work; working; workshop; world; wretched; yarn; years; york; young
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