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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... less wanted , not less essential to the common good . " 1 In the following treatise the term labourers is taken in its popular and more confined sense . Our investigations refer to the wages of those only who labour with the hand , as ...
... less wanted , not less essential to the common good . " 1 In the following treatise the term labourers is taken in its popular and more confined sense . Our investigations refer to the wages of those only who labour with the hand , as ...
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... less fertile than Poland or Hun- gary , and Lancashire is less fertile than Kent ; but , owing to their greater command of capital , the population of the former is comparatively dense . A fertile soil may be made a means of rapidly ...
... less fertile than Poland or Hun- gary , and Lancashire is less fertile than Kent ; but , owing to their greater command of capital , the population of the former is comparatively dense . A fertile soil may be made a means of rapidly ...
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... less share will be apportioned to each individual , and the rate of wages will be reduced . To illustrate this principle , let us suppose that the capital of a country , annually appropriated to the payment of wages , amounts to L ...
... less share will be apportioned to each individual , and the rate of wages will be reduced . To illustrate this principle , let us suppose that the capital of a country , annually appropriated to the payment of wages , amounts to L ...
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... less fertile . This decreasing fertility of the soil may , as we have just seen , be countervailed , or more than countervailed , by improvements in agriculture and the arts . But whether this be so or not , were population as dense ...
... less fertile . This decreasing fertility of the soil may , as we have just seen , be countervailed , or more than countervailed , by improvements in agriculture and the arts . But whether this be so or not , were population as dense ...
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... less , compared with their numbers , than in America , and both parties have in conse- quence a less power of providing for the wants of a family . A number of children is not here , as in the United States or Australia , a source of ...
... less , compared with their numbers , than in America , and both parties have in conse- quence a less power of providing for the wants of a family . A number of children is not here , as in the United States or Australia , a source of ...
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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