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Title: The Evolution of Modern Capitalism
A Study of Machine Production

Author: John Atkinson Hobson

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Language: English

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_THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE SERIES._
EDITED BY HAVELOCK ELLIS.

EVOLUTION
OF MODERN CAPITALISM.

THE EVOLUTION

OF

MODERN CAPITALISM

A STUDY OF MACHINE PRODUCTION.

BY
JOHN A. HOBSON, M.A.,
AUTHOR OF "PROBLEMS OF POVERTY."

THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., LTD.,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON, E.C.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS,
153-157 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK.
1902.

PREFACE.

In seeking to express and illustrate some of the laws of the
structural changes in modern industry, I have chosen a focus of study
between the wider philosophic survey of treatises on Social Evolution
and the special studies of modern machine-ind