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Notable inventions of modern machinery--"Machine
Riots"--Petitions against machines and
manufactories--Laws for the protection of
machines--Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations"--Robert
Owen's chief writing's--Fourier's first great
book--Complete removal of Elizabethan trade
restrictions--The "Savannah" arrives at
Liverpool--Chief work of St. Simon--More liberal
coalition law--Opening of the Manchester-Liverpool
Railroad--Insurrection of the silk workers in
Lyons--Beginning of specific legislation for working
men--Founding of the German Zollverein--Beginnings of
German national industry--Introduction of Rowland
Hill's penny postage--Telegraph first applied to
English railroads--German governmental regulations
for the repression of the working-men's
movement--Severe laws of Napoleon III. for the
repression of all social agitation--First World's
Exposition in London--Bismarck forces the general,
equal, secret, and direct ballot--Liberal trade
regulation for the German Empire--Rapid development
of capitalism in Germany, especially after the
war--Trade-union act (English) supplemented in
1875--Law concerning the socialists in
Germany--Beginning of governmental working-men's
association in Germany--Insurance for the sick,
against accident, for the sick and aged, in
Germany--Endorsement of a legal establishment of the
eight-hour work-day by the Trade-Union Congress in
Liverpool--International Working-Men's Protection
Conference in Berlin--Third International
Working-Men's Congress in Zurich, at which English
trade-unions deliberate officially with the
Continental socialists--Fourth International
Working-Men's Congress in London.

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