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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... live . But a pretence of this sort cannot impose on any person possessed of the smallest discernment . It is the merest delusion to imagine that it is in the power of any administration to protect those from suffering and degradation ...
... live . But a pretence of this sort cannot impose on any person possessed of the smallest discernment . It is the merest delusion to imagine that it is in the power of any administration to protect those from suffering and degradation ...
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... distant coun- tries varies extremely . In some it is both expensive and abundant , compared to what it is in others . In England , for example , the lower classes principally live on wheaten bread NECESSARY RATE OF WAGES . 31.
... distant coun- tries varies extremely . In some it is both expensive and abundant , compared to what it is in others . In England , for example , the lower classes principally live on wheaten bread NECESSARY RATE OF WAGES . 31.
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... live in miserable mud cabins , without either a window or a chimney , or anything that can be called furniture ; while in England the cottages of the peasantry have glass windows and chimneys , are well furnished , and are as much ...
... live in miserable mud cabins , without either a window or a chimney , or anything that can be called furniture ; while in England the cottages of the peasantry have glass windows and chimneys , are well furnished , and are as much ...
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... live on a smaller quantity of necessaries and conveniences , and those probably , too , of an inferior species than they had previously been accustomed to . And the danger is , that the coarse and scanty fare which has thus been , in ...
... live on a smaller quantity of necessaries and conveniences , and those probably , too , of an inferior species than they had previously been accustomed to . And the danger is , that the coarse and scanty fare which has thus been , in ...
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... live on coarse and scanty fare . Men placed under such circum- stances are without any sufficient motive to be industrious , and , instead of activity and enterprise , we have sloth , ignor- ance , and improvidence . The examples of ...
... live on coarse and scanty fare . Men placed under such circum- stances are without any sufficient motive to be industrious , and , instead of activity and enterprise , we have sloth , ignor- ance , and improvidence . The examples 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