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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... land , that we are able to account for the extraor- dinarily rapid increase of capital and population in the United States , and generally in all colonies planted in fertile and thinly - peopled countries . America possesses a vast ex ...
... land , that we are able to account for the extraor- dinarily rapid increase of capital and population in the United States , and generally in all colonies planted in fertile and thinly - peopled countries . America possesses a vast ex ...
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... land , and raising themselves to a superior station . It was stated by various witnesses before a committee of the House of Commons on the state of agriculture , in 1822 , that the produce obtained from the best lands under wheat in ...
... land , and raising themselves to a superior station . It was stated by various witnesses before a committee of the House of Commons on the state of agriculture , in 1822 , that the produce obtained from the best lands under wheat in ...
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... land , and of its being more advantageous to cultivate it in the cheapest manner , than to apply improved processes ... land , a better and more careful system of tillage will be applied to the old land . Still , however , there can be ...
... land , and of its being more advantageous to cultivate it in the cheapest manner , than to apply improved processes ... land , a better and more careful system of tillage will be applied to the old land . Still , however , there can be ...
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... lands will , in the long run , be exhausted ; and whenever this is the case , increased supplies of food can only be had by resorting to such as are less fertile . This decreasing fertility of the soil may , as we have just seen , be ...
... lands will , in the long run , be exhausted ; and whenever this is the case , increased supplies of food can only be had by resorting to such as are less fertile . This decreasing fertility of the soil may , as we have just seen , be ...
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... land or Russia , will always be poor and miserable . No man can devolve on government , or on others , any portion of that self - responsibility which at once dignifies and consti- tutes an essential part of human nature . They are not ...
... land or Russia , will always be poor and miserable . No man can devolve on government , or on others , any portion of that self - responsibility which at once dignifies and consti- tutes an essential part of human nature . They are not ...
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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