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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... habits of the labourers , more especially on the description and cost of the articles used by them , and on their frugality and forethought . The same amount of wages that would suffice to maintain a workman who lived princi- pally on ...
... habits of the labourers , more especially on the description and cost of the articles used by them , and on their frugality and forethought . The same amount of wages that would suffice to maintain a workman who lived princi- pally on ...
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... habits which it occasions , have precisely opposite effects . Without further insisting at present on considerations which will hereafter be resumed , it is plain that the rate of wages in any given country , at any specified period ...
... habits which it occasions , have precisely opposite effects . Without further insisting at present on considerations which will hereafter be resumed , it is plain that the rate of wages in any given country , at any specified period ...
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... habits of the bulk of the people . It is plain , from the statements already made , that the inha- bitants of a country , supposing them to have the same , or about the same , continuous command over necessaries and conveniences ...
... habits of the bulk of the people . It is plain , from the statements already made , that the inha- bitants of a country , supposing them to have the same , or about the same , continuous command over necessaries and conveniences ...
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... habits of the people have been moulded accordingly . There is a general feeling that it would be imprudent to enter into matrimonial connections without having something like a rea- sonable prospect of being able to maintain the ...
... habits of the people have been moulded accordingly . There is a general feeling that it would be imprudent to enter into matrimonial connections without having something like a rea- sonable prospect of being able to maintain the ...
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... habits and customs of the poor . But , how high soever the price of necessary articles may rise , the labourers must always receive a supply of these equivalent for their support . If they did not obtain this much , they would be left ...
... habits and customs of the poor . But , how high soever the price of necessary articles may rise , the labourers must always receive a supply of these equivalent for their support . If they did not obtain this much , they would be left ...
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advantage amount become better Britain capital and population CHAPTER circumstances Combination Act comfort common comparatively condition conduct consequence considerable corn crease demand for labour depend depressed destitution diminished dition earnings effect employed ENCYCLOPEDIA endeavour engaged England equal exertion facilities of Production fall 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 London 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 potatoes poverty principle proper proportion quantity raise wages rate of wages reduced repeal respect rise savings-banks septier species statute subsistence supplies of food supposed tillage tion trade undertakings wages of labour WEALTH OF NATIONS wheaten bread Wood Engravings work-houses work-people workmen