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  • It has got to be brought home to the clerk, the engineer, the commercial traveller, the middle-class man who has ‘come down in the world’, the village grocer, the lower-grade civil servant, and all other doubtful cases that they are the proletariat, and that Socialism means a fair deal for them as well as for the navvy and the factory-hand.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • This means that the small-holder has got to ally himself with the factory-hand, the typist with the coal-miner, the schoolmaster with the garage mechanic.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • Why, _I_ knowed a man once -- common factory-hand he was when he started: couldn't read nor write, nor nothin '; but he had his wits about him, all the same, -- well, _he_ cum out here 'bout ten year ago, and went to some place on the Volga, with some crack-jaw name or other that I can't reck'lect.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

  • It has got to be brought home to the clerk, the engineer, the commercial traveller, the middle-class man who has ‘come down in the world’, the village grocer, the lower-grade civil servant, and all other doubtful cases that they are the proletariat, and that Socialism means a fair deal for them as well as for the navvy and the factory-hand.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • This means that the small-holder has got to ally himself with the factory-hand, the typist with the coal-miner, the schoolmaster with the garage mechanic.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • The children had invited guests for the Christmas-tree; the seamstress, the old night-watchman from the courtyard, the factory-hand with her little boy; all those who were sitting at home and keeping Christmas all alone.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • The children had invited guests for the Christmas-tree; the seamstress, the old night-watchman from the courtyard, the factory-hand with her little boy; all those who were sitting at home and keeping Christmas all alone.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • "He's a friend of the Monseigneur," ventured a factory-hand, who had a wife and children to support, and however partisan, was little ready for that which would stop his supplies.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "He's a friend of the Monseigneur," ventured a factory-hand, who had a wife and children to support, and however partisan, was little ready for that which would stop his supplies.

    The World for Sale, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "He's a friend of the Monseigneur," ventured a factory-hand, who had a wife and children to support, and however partisan, was little ready for that which would stop his supplies.

    The World for Sale, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

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