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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... former is comparatively dense . A fertile soil may be made a means of rapidly increasing capital ; but that is all . Before that soil can be cultivated , capital must be provided for the sup- port of the labourers employed upon it , in ...
... former is comparatively dense . A fertile soil may be made a means of rapidly increasing capital ; but that is all . Before that soil can be cultivated , capital must be provided for the sup- port of the labourers employed upon it , in ...
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... former be quite as large as those of the latter . The wages and the habits of the labouring classes are intimately connected with , and powerfully influence , each other . Generally speaking , a rise of wages , however occa- sioned ...
... former be quite as large as those of the latter . The wages and the habits of the labouring classes are intimately connected with , and powerfully influence , each other . Generally speaking , a rise of wages , however occa- sioned ...
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... former would be about twice as productive as in the latter , and that the power which each country possesses of increasing that portion of its capital which consists of food , and other farm produce , would be in about that proportion ...
... former would be about twice as productive as in the latter , and that the power which each country possesses of increasing that portion of its capital which consists of food , and other farm produce , would be in about that proportion ...
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... former has increased consider- ably during the last fifty or a hundred years , though , when we compare the slow growth of the towns and manufactures , the fewness of the public works , and the scanty improvements effected on the land ...
... former has increased consider- ably during the last fifty or a hundred years , though , when we compare the slow growth of the towns and manufactures , the fewness of the public works , and the scanty improvements effected on the land ...
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... latter , exceed the price of those consumed by the former , in about the same proportion as their money wages , they are not really in any better condition . that the market rate of wages , at any given 26 NECESSARY RATE OF WAGES .
... latter , exceed the price of those consumed by the former , in about the same proportion as their money wages , they are not really in any better condition . that the market rate of wages , at any given 26 NECESSARY RATE OF WAGES .
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