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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... evident that the wages of each , reducing them all to the same common standard , would be L.15 ; and it is further evident that this rate could not be increased otherwise than by increasing the amount of capital in a greater proportion ...
... evident that the wages of each , reducing them all to the same common standard , would be L.15 ; and it is further evident that this rate could not be increased otherwise than by increasing the amount of capital in a greater proportion ...
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... evident that the power of adding to its stock of food and other raw materials would also be twice as great in the more fertile country as in the other . It is on this principle partly , but more on the facility of getting land , that we ...
... evident that the power of adding to its stock of food and other raw materials would also be twice as great in the more fertile country as in the other . It is on this principle partly , but more on the facility of getting land , that we ...
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... evident , on the least reflection , that poverty is the source of the greater portion of the ills which afflict humanity ; and there can be no reasonable doubt , that a too rapid increase of population , by occasioning a redundant ...
... evident , on the least reflection , that poverty is the source of the greater portion of the ills which afflict humanity ; and there can be no reasonable doubt , that a too rapid increase of population , by occasioning a redundant ...
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... evident , it may be inquired whether government may not assist in bringing about this result ? But how desirable soever , this is a matter in which legislation can do but little . Where government has secured the property and the rights ...
... evident , it may be inquired whether government may not assist in bringing about this result ? But how desirable soever , this is a matter in which legislation can do but little . Where government has secured the property and the rights ...
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... evident , depend a good deal on other circumstances , on the superior and inferior lodging and clothing , and generally on the habits and customs of the poor . But , how high soever the price of necessary articles may rise , the ...
... evident , depend a good deal on other circumstances , on the superior and inferior lodging and clothing , and generally on the habits and customs of the poor . But , how high soever the price of necessary articles may rise , the ...
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