Chapter I: Front Matter

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ILLUSTRATIONS
OF
POLITICAL ECONOMY.

BY

HARRIET MARTINEAU.

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A MANCHESTER STRIKE.
COUSIN MARSHALL.
IRELAND.

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_IN NINE VOLUMES._

VOL. III.

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LONDON:
CHARLES FOX, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

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MDCCCXXXIV.

LONDON:
Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES,
Duke-street, Lambeth.

CONTENTS.

A MANCHESTER STRIKE.
CHAP. PAGE
1. The Week’s end 1
2. Child’s Gossip 16
3. No Union of Masters 23
4. Union of Men 40
5. No Progress made 55
6. Night and Morning 63
7. A Committee 72
8. A Tête-à-tête 84
9. A Public Meeting 91
10. Hope declining 108
11. Final Deliberation 118
12. Hope extinct 126

COUSIN MARSHALL.
1. A very Hot Morning 1
2. An Interior 15
3. Tea and Talk 32
4. Pauper Life 53
5. Cousin Marshall’s Charities 73
6. Parish Charities 82
7. What comes of Parish Charities? 90
8. What is Charity? 108
9. Cousin Marshall’s end 122

IRELAND.
1. Irish Economy 1
2. Irish Liabilities 15
3. Irish Adventure 34
4. Irish Crime 61
5. Irish Retribution 74
6. Irish Responsibility 91
7. Irish Impolicy 104
8. Irish Fatality 119
9. Irish Disaffection 127

A
MANCHESTER STRIKE.

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