# How does News from Nowhere develop the theme of Critique of Industrial Capitalism?

> News from Nowhere by William Morris

## Answer

News from Nowhere by William Morris develops Critique of Industrial Capitalism across the chapters the companion marks for this theme.

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.

## Evidence

- [iv-a-market-by-the-way](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/chapters/iv-a-market-by-the-way.md): The absence of poor or rough people and the joyful, well-dressed populace implicitly critique the poverty and inequality of 19th-century industrial society.
- [vi-a-little-shopping](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/chapters/vi-a-little-shopping.md): The transformed Piccadilly market, with its absence of buying and selling and the casual provision of goods, directly contrasts with 19th-century capitalist commerce.
- [vii-trafalgar-square](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/chapters/vii-trafalgar-square.md): 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.
- [x-question-and-answers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/chapters/x-question-and-answers.md): 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.'
- [xi-concerning-government](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/chapters/xi-concerning-government.md): Old Hammond argues that the old government existed to protect property rights and the rich, leading to the destruction of wealth and unutterable poverty for the poor.
- [xv-on-the-lack-of-incentive-to-labour-in-a-communist-society](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/chapters/xv-on-the-lack-of-incentive-to-labour-in-a-communist-society.md): The chapter heavily criticizes the nineteenth-century capitalist system where goods were made to sell rather than to use, and machines were perfect but their products worthless.
- [xvii-how-the-change-came](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/chapters/xvii-how-the-change-came.md): Old Hammond critiques the capitalist system, describing it as a 'system of slavery' and detailing the exploitation and misery of the working classes.
- [xxii-hampton-court-and-a-praiser-of-past-times](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/chapters/xxii-hampton-court-and-a-praiser-of-past-times.md): Ellen criticizes past literature for depicting heroes and heroines living happily on 'other people's troubles,' implicitly condemning the competitive, exploitative society that produced such works.

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