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The reply of the journeymen bookbinders, : to remarks on a memorial addressed to their employers, on the effects of a machine, introduced to supersede manual labour, as appeared in a work published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, with observations on the influence of machinery on the working classes in general

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1831.
Call number: 605972
Provenance: Purchased from John Drury Rare Books, September 2013.
Dimensions: 20 cm
Associated organization: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
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