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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... sort or other . Their entire subsistence , in so far at least as they depend on their 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 ...
... sort or other . Their entire subsistence , in so far at least as they depend on their 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 ...
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... sort , to refer to capital in general ; for we have only to deal with that portion of it , which em- braces the various articles intended for " the use and accom- modation of the labouring class . " This portion forms the fund , out of ...
... sort , to refer to capital in general ; for we have only to deal with that portion of it , which em- braces the various articles intended for " the use and accom- modation of the labouring class . " This portion forms the fund , out of ...
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... sort are much modified in practice . Agricultural science may be equal , or nearly equal , in two countries , and yet their agriculture may be widely different . Scientific knowledge , which is generally confined to a few , and the ...
... sort are much modified in practice . Agricultural science may be equal , or nearly equal , in two countries , and yet their agriculture may be widely different . Scientific knowledge , which is generally confined to a few , and the ...
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... sort of disadvantage , compared with them , as if she cultivated soils of a less de- gree of fertility . But the freedom of the corn trade gives a security against this disadvantage ever becoming very con- siderable ; while it , at the ...
... sort of disadvantage , compared with them , as if she cultivated soils of a less de- gree of fertility . But the freedom of the corn trade gives a security against this disadvantage ever becoming very con- siderable ; while it , at the ...
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... sort of com- bination or co - operation is required to secure these advantages . They are realised to the fullest extent by every one by whom they are practised ; and they can be realised by none else . It is fortunate that those ...
... sort of com- bination or co - operation is required to secure these advantages . They are realised to the fullest extent by every one by whom they are practised ; and they can be realised by none else . It is fortunate that those ...
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