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Page 1224b from Volume 3 of 'Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries' (Great Exhibition 1851)

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Page 359 from Volume 2 of 'Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries' (Great Exhibition 1851)

Composed of a letter from Bourchier Cleeve to the Society on a scheme for the maintenance and employment of the poor; Proposal for a scheme to have a common workhouse for the employment of the poor; Minutes of the Committee for the Maintenance and Employment of the Poor

The aim of the project was to define the role of manufacturing in a sustainable economy, which the Society considered to be one of the key issues of economic and industrial policy facing the UK. A linked series of three lectures and five seminars to clarify the significance of a healthy manufacturing sector in improving the UK's international trade and economic growth.

The functions of the group were to keep the RSA in touch with developments in manufactures and commerce; provide ideas for lectures, projects and initiatives; advise on the value of suggestions for lectures, projects and initiatives coming from the Fellowship and the extent to which the RSA name should be attached to them; evaluate the quality of the RSA manufactures and commerce programme; support the RSA in the formulation and dissemination of ideas and project results and provide advice on sponsorship for manufacturing activities.

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