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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... employment , is de- rived from wages ; and they are as evidently labourers as if they handled a shuttle or a spade , or held a plough . Even those to whom ample fortunes have descended , are not exempted from the necessity of exertion ...
... employment , is de- rived from wages ; and they are as evidently labourers as if they handled a shuttle or a spade , or held a plough . Even those to whom ample fortunes have descended , are not exempted from the necessity of exertion ...
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... employment , and low wages , is the most efficient cause of poverty . It is now too late to contend that a crowded population is a sure symptom of national prosperity . The population of the United States is much less dense than that of ...
... employment , and low wages , is the most efficient cause of poverty . It is now too late to contend that a crowded population is a sure symptom of national prosperity . The population of the United States is much less dense than that of ...
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... employment , their wages would consequently have been higher , and their situation so far improved . And such being the cause of the evil , it is plain that , without its being obviated or mitigated , and without the numbers of the ...
... employment , their wages would consequently have been higher , and their situation so far improved . And such being the cause of the evil , it is plain that , without its being obviated or mitigated , and without the numbers of the ...
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... employment of the poor , it will increase the poverty it seeks to relieve , disturb all the usual channels of industry , and become a potent in- strument of evil . It may , perhaps , be asked , though government be thus in- capable of ...
... employment of the poor , it will increase the poverty it seeks to relieve , disturb all the usual channels of industry , and become a potent in- strument of evil . It may , perhaps , be asked , though government be thus in- capable of ...
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... employment after the rise as before , and as a rise in the price of bread , occasioned by a scarcity , could not increase the demand for labour , that wages would not be increased . The labourers would , in consequence , be forced to ...
... employment after the rise as before , and as a rise in the price of bread , occasioned by a scarcity , could not increase the demand for labour , that wages would not be increased . The labourers would , in consequence , be forced to ...
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