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The growth of the limited liability company and municipal business had important consequences. Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business. All through the 19th century, America, Africa, India, Australia and parts of Europe were being developed by British capital, and British shareholders were thus enriched by the world' s movement towards industrialization. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large ' comfortable' classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate their orders to the management. On the other hand ' shareholding' meant leisure and freedom which was used by many of the later Victorians for the highest purpose of a great civilization. |
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yǒu xiàn zé rèn gōng sī hé shì yíng qǐ yè de fā zhǎn yì yì zhòng dà. zī jīn hé qǐ yè de zhè zhǒng dà guī mó fēi gè rén de yùn zuò jí dà dì cù jìn le zuò wéi yí gè jiē céng de gǔ dōng rén shù de zēng jiā, zēng qiáng le tā men de zhòng yào xìng gǔ dōng jiē céng shì guó mín zhōng de yī bù fen, dài biǎo liǎo bù xū chéng dān zé rèn de cái fù cóng dì chǎn hé tǔ dì suǒ yǒu zhě de zé rèn zhōng de fēn lí, jī hū yě tóng yàng dài biǎo le cóng qǐ yè fù zé rèn de guǎn lǐ zhōng de fēn lí. zhěng gè shí jiǔ shì jì, měi zhōu fēi zhōu yìn dù ào dà lì yà hé ōu zhōu de bù fèn dì qū dōu kào yīng guó de zī jīn fà zhǎn, ér yīng guó de gǔ dōng zé yīn shì jiè xìng de gōng yè huà ér dà fā qí cái. xiàng Bournmouth hé Eastbourne zhè yàng de chéng zhèn xùn sù fā zhǎn qǐ lái, wèi dà pī" xiǎng lè" jiē céng tí gōng le zhù suǒ, ér zhèi xiē rén kào zì jǐ de fēng hòu shōu rù guò zhe yǐn jū shēng huó, zhèi xiē rén chú le fēn qǔ hóng lì ǒu ěr cān jiā gǔ dōng dà huì xiàng guǎn lǐ rén yuán fā hào shī lìng wài, tā men yǔ wài jiè méi yǒu rèn hé lián xì. lìng yī fāng miàn," gǔ quán" yì wèi zhe yōu xián hé zì yóu, ér zhè zhèng shì wéi duō lì yà shí dài hòu qī xǔ duō rén shì zhī wèi wěi dà wén míng de zuì gāo mù biāo. |