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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... lower in public esti- mation than the others , their functions are of paramount importance . Our fleets and armies depend on them for re- cruits ; their expenditure furnishes the largest portion of the public revenue ; and their ...
... lower in public esti- mation than the others , their functions are of paramount importance . Our fleets and armies depend on them for re- cruits ; their expenditure furnishes the largest portion of the public revenue ; and their ...
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... lower animals in a state of domestication , with food , clothes , & c . But it is unneces- sary , in an inquiry of this sort , to refer to capital in general ; for we have only to deal with that portion of it , which em- braces the ...
... lower animals in a state of domestication , with food , clothes , & c . But it is unneces- sary , in an inquiry of this sort , to refer to capital in general ; for we have only to deal with that portion of it , which em- braces the ...
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... lower classes may be expected to become gradually more and more wretched , until their wages are reduced to the smallest pittance that will suffice for their support . It is indispens- able that principles , pregnant with such important ...
... lower classes may be expected to become gradually more and more wretched , until their wages are reduced to the smallest pittance that will suffice for their support . It is indispens- able that principles , pregnant with such important ...
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... lower , where less animal food is consumed , and an inferior species of grain , such as oats , is used in making bread ; and lower still , where animal food is wholly , or all but wholly , disused , and the place of bread is supplied ...
... lower , where less animal food is consumed , and an inferior species of grain , such as oats , is used in making bread ; and lower still , where animal food is wholly , or all but wholly , disused , and the place of bread is supplied ...
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... lower , not to raise , wages . But we should fall into the greatest imaginable error if we supposed that , because this is the immediate , it is also the permanent effect of such rise . It is obvious , indeed , that the fall of wages ...
... lower , not to raise , wages . But we should fall into the greatest imaginable error if we supposed that , because this is the immediate , it is also the permanent effect of such rise . It is obvious , indeed , that the fall of wages ...
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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