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Page 37
... houses , definitely benefited from the existing system . Moreover , the tendency of small businesses to merge together into large ones robbed more and more of the monied class of their function and turned them into mere owners , their ...
... houses , definitely benefited from the existing system . Moreover , the tendency of small businesses to merge together into large ones robbed more and more of the monied class of their function and turned them into mere owners , their ...
Page 52
... house , with its bathroom and electric light , is smaller than the stockbroker's villa , but it is recognizably the same kind of house , which the farm labourer's cottage is not . A person who has grown up in a Council housing estate is ...
... house , with its bathroom and electric light , is smaller than the stockbroker's villa , but it is recognizably the same kind of house , which the farm labourer's cottage is not . A person who has grown up in a Council housing estate is ...
Page 54
... houses and squalid cottages , no longer exist . There are wide gradations of income , but it is the same kind of life that is being lived at different levels , in labour- saving flats or Council houses , along the concrete roads and in ...
... houses and squalid cottages , no longer exist . There are wide gradations of income , but it is the same kind of life that is being lived at different levels , in labour- saving flats or Council houses , along the concrete roads and in ...
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