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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... demand for the labour of the Irish people , and of their abject poverty . Had population increased less rapidly , fewer individuals would have been seeking for employment , their wages would consequently have been higher , and their ...
... demand for the labour of the Irish people , and of their abject poverty . Had population increased less rapidly , fewer individuals would have been seeking for employment , their wages would consequently have been higher , and their ...
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... demand for labour . It may , however , exercise a considerable indirect influence over its increase , by relieving industry from oppressive burdens and shackles , by negotiating with foreign powers for the removal of impediments to ...
... demand for labour . It may , however , exercise a considerable indirect influence over its increase , by relieving industry from oppressive burdens and shackles , by negotiating with foreign powers for the removal of impediments to ...
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... demand ; and till they have pretty generally disappeared , there can be nothing like an excess of emigration . Ireland is not , in fact , a country which , were its social economy in a sound state , would have a large population . The ...
... demand ; and till they have pretty generally disappeared , there can be nothing like an excess of emigration . Ireland is not , in fact , a country which , were its social economy in a sound state , would have a large population . The ...
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... demand of those who have the means of purchasing them . But were this price less than the sum required to produce them , and bring them to market , they would cease to be supplied . And such is the case with labourers . They neither ...
... demand of those who have the means of purchasing them . But were this price less than the sum required to produce them , and bring them to market , they would cease to be supplied . And such is the case with labourers . They neither ...
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... demand for labour , the marriages in the latter ex- ceeded those in the former year by no fewer than 50,000.1 It may here , perhaps , be proper to mention , that it has been long observed that the tendency of wages is not to rise , but ...
... demand for labour , the marriages in the latter ex- ceeded those in the former year by no fewer than 50,000.1 It may here , perhaps , be proper to mention , that it has been long observed that the tendency of wages is not to rise , but ...
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