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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... trade gives a security against this disadvantage ever becoming very con- siderable ; while it , at the same time , affords the best at- tainable security against the recurrence of those periods of scarcity and high prices which are ...
... trade gives a security against this disadvantage ever becoming very con- siderable ; while it , at the same time , affords the best at- tainable security against the recurrence of those periods of scarcity and high prices which are ...
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... trading on his own account , and dependent , perhaps , for his subsistence on the issue of his labours . To suppose that undertakings carried on by such different agencies should be equally prosperous , is to suppose what is evidently ...
... trading on his own account , and dependent , perhaps , for his subsistence on the issue of his labours . To suppose that undertakings carried on by such different agencies should be equally prosperous , is to suppose what is evidently ...
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... trade , and by endeavouring , in short , to give greater facilities to production . But beyond this , its interference will be pro- ductive of mischief rather than of good . And , if it attempt to set up national workshops for the ...
... trade , and by endeavouring , in short , to give greater facilities to production . But beyond this , its interference will be pro- ductive of mischief rather than of good . And , if it attempt to set up national workshops for the ...
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... trades , in which the workmen are paid by the piece ; as they generally are in manufactures , and even in country labour , wherever wages are higher than ordinary . Almost every class of artificers is subject to some peculiar infirmity ...
... trades , in which the workmen are paid by the piece ; as they generally are in manufactures , and even in country labour , wherever wages are higher than ordinary . Almost every class of artificers is subject to some peculiar infirmity ...
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... trade . If masters would always listen to the dictates of reason and humanity , they have frequently occasion rather to moderate than to animate the application of many of their workmen . It will be found , I believe , in every sort of ...
... trade . If masters would always listen to the dictates of reason and humanity , they have frequently occasion rather to moderate than to animate the application of many of their workmen . It will be found , I believe , in every sort of ...
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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