# What Critique of Industrial Capitalism means in News from Nowhere

> Morris sharply criticizes 19th-century industrial capitalism, portraying it as a system of 'systematised robbery' that creates unnecessary toil, ugliness, and human misery through the tyranny of the 'World-Market' and cheap production.

## Explanation

Morris sharply criticizes 19th-century industrial capitalism, portraying it as a system of 'systematised robbery' that creates unnecessary toil, ugliness, and human misery through the tyranny of the 'World-Market' and cheap production.

The absence of poor or rough people and the joyful, well-dressed populace implicitly critique the poverty and inequality of 19th-century industrial society.

The transformed Piccadilly market, with its absence of buying and selling and the casual provision of goods, directly contrasts with 19th-century capitalist commerce.

The narrator contrasts the peaceful, cooperative labor of the banded-workshops with the violent suppression of workers in the past, as recalled in the Trafalgar Square protest.

Hammond condemns the old manufacturing districts as places of 'dirt, confusion, and the distressing of quiet people's lives,' and describes the slums as 'places of torture for innocent men and women.'

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