Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. Contexts and Possibilities: 2. General context; 3. Mental furniture; Part II. Texts: 4. The real rights of man; 5. An essay on the right of property in land; 6. Enquiry concerning political justice and its influence on morals and happiness; 7. The effects of civilization on the people in European States; 8. A lay sermon addressed to the higher and middle classes on the existing distresses and discontents; 9. Report to the county of Lanark; 10. A few doubts as to the correctness of some opinions generally entertained on the subjects of population and political economy; 11. An inquiry into the principles of the distribution of wealth most conductive to human happiness; applied to the newly proposed system of voluntary equality of wealth; 12. Labour defended against the claims of capital or the unproductiveness of capital proved with reference to the present combinations amongst journeymen; 13. Rural rides; 14. Conclusion; Notes; Index.

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An account of the flowering of radical social criticism in Britain during the first industrial revolution.