A Treatise on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages and the Condition of the Labouring ClassesLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851 - 114 páginas |
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... carry fewer pieces of gold and silver to market than formerly ; but these would serve to buy the same quan- tity of commodities . Whatever , therefore , may be the state of money wages in a country - whether they are 1s . , 2s . , or 5s ...
... carry fewer pieces of gold and silver to market than formerly ; but these would serve to buy the same quan- tity of commodities . Whatever , therefore , may be the state of money wages in a country - whether they are 1s . , 2s . , or 5s ...
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... carry on the operations of industry had become deficient . But the principle of increase is quite as strong in Yorkshire or Normandy as it is in Kentucky or Illinois , and yet it is plainly impossible that the population of England or ...
... carry on the operations of industry had become deficient . But the principle of increase is quite as strong in Yorkshire or Normandy as it is in Kentucky or Illinois , and yet it is plainly impossible that the population of England or ...
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... carried on by such different agencies should be equally prosperous , is to suppose what is evidently contradictory and absurd . This is a matter in regard to which there is no longer any difference of opinion . It is now universally ...
... carried on by such different agencies should be equally prosperous , is to suppose what is evidently contradictory and absurd . This is a matter in regard to which there is no longer any difference of opinion . It is now universally ...
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John Ramsay McCulloch. acknowledged , that every branch of industry that may be carried on by private parties , will be more successfully and economically prosecuted by them than by the servants of government ; and that any advantage ...
John Ramsay McCulloch. acknowledged , that every branch of industry that may be carried on by private parties , will be more successfully and economically prosecuted by them than by the servants of government ; and that any advantage ...
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... carried to an excess , and of the country being deprived of an adequate supply of labour . But we are disposed to regard this apprehension as being in a great degree visionary . Previously to 1846 , labour in Ireland was a mere drug ...
... carried to an excess , and of the country being deprived of an adequate supply of labour . But we are disposed to regard this apprehension as being in a great degree visionary . Previously to 1846 , labour in Ireland was a mere drug ...
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Adam Smith advance of wages advantage amount become Britain circumstances Combination Act combination laws comfort common comparatively condition conduct consequence considerable crease degree demand for labour depend depressed destitution diminished dition earnings effect employed employment endeavour engaged England equal exertion facility fall famine forethought friendly societies greater habits high wages idle improved improvident increase of capital individuals industry influence injurious interest Ireland Irish labouring classes land latter less Lord John Russell manufacturing marriages masters means ment natural or necessary necessaries and conveniences necessary rate number of labourers obtain occasion paid parties period poor portion potatoes poverty principle productive proper proportion quantity raise wages rate of wages reduced regard repeal respect rise savings-banks septier sort statute subsistence sufficient supplies of food supposed tillage tion trade wages of labour Wealth of Nations well-being wheaten bread work-houses work-people workmen