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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... failed to keep pace with them . Those who inquire into the past and present state of the world , will find that the population of all countries is generally accommodated to their means of subsistence . Whenever these have been increased ...
... failed to keep pace with them . Those who inquire into the past and present state of the world , will find that the population of all countries is generally accommodated to their means of subsistence . Whenever these have been increased ...
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... fail to be ruinous alike to the parties and to the public . It is not unusual , indeed , for those who have brought themselves into difficulties by their improvidence or miscon- duct , to throw the blame on the government or the institu ...
... fail to be ruinous alike to the parties and to the public . It is not unusual , indeed , for those who have brought themselves into difficulties by their improvidence or miscon- duct , to throw the blame on the government or the institu ...
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... fail to take place in all old settled countries in which the standard of living is not sufficiently elevated , or in which the principle of augmentation is not powerfully countervailed by the operation of moral restraint , or of a ...
... fail to take place in all old settled countries in which the standard of living is not sufficiently elevated , or in which the principle of augmentation is not powerfully countervailed by the operation of moral restraint , or of a ...
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... fail- ures , are very unfavourable symptoms . Whatever may be their situation in other respects , a people depending upon so un- certain and worthless a resource , cannot be otherwise than poor and miserable . The paramount importance ...
... fail- ures , are very unfavourable symptoms . Whatever may be their situation in other respects , a people depending upon so un- certain and worthless a resource , cannot be otherwise than poor and miserable . The paramount importance ...
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... fail to improve in some con- siderable degree , the condition of the poor . The extraordinary , and indeed unparalleled , emigration that has been going on for the last three or four years from Ireland , and which still continues , has ...
... fail to improve in some con- siderable degree , the condition of the poor . The extraordinary , and indeed unparalleled , emigration that has been going on for the last three or four years from Ireland , and which still continues , has ...
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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