Capitalism is an economic system where such items that can generate monetary value are owned by private businesses and corporations which trade in a 'free market' of competition. ... It is estimated that between 25 and 30 million people, were taken from their homes and sold into a life of slavery. ... Portugal had been present in Western Africa for several years but in 1445 the King, Henry the Navigator instructed his sailors on their way to the continent to win over the natives so they could purchase human beings to be used as free labour rather than to kidnap them as they had don...

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Most didn't even have to do the work at home as they had people to do it for them. ... The "sweated trades" were businesses where women were made to all sit together in a stuffy room with no windows thus causing sweat and an all round uncomfortable time. ... But then in 1876 school attendance was made compulsory between the ages of five and thirteen years and free after 1800. ...

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There are many things common in three articles like the Atlantic boom In his well known 1944 book 'Free enterprise and Slavery', the Trinidadian researcher Eric Williams contended that benefits from bondage "prepared" numerous limbs of the metropolitan economy and set the scene for England's mechanical upset'. ... It accurately recognized the exceptionally incredible closeness in eighteenth century Britain between profiting from bondage from one perspective, and the financing of British industrialist improvement, on the other. [ CITATION Bla11 l 1033 ] The boom in Atlantic ...

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Manufacturing was often produced in people's homes, using hand tools. ... All these new inventions enhanced the economic system resulting in the 'free market', also called capitalism. Adam Smith who was a firm believer in this economic system argued that individuals pursue what they want in a free marker benefiting society, because it keeps the economy flowing allows competition thus allowing lower prices whilst encouraging value and development. ...

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However, educators, government, and businesses are making it more difficult for non-qualified people to get jobs despite evidence that alternatives to qualifications not only work, but are more cost-effective than additional years spent in further education. ...

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