A Treatise on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages and the Condition of the Labouring Classes, Including an Inquiry Into the Influence of CombinationsG. Routledge & Company, 1854 - 117 páginas |
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... able to account for the 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 extent of fertile and unoccupied territory ...
... able to account for the 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 extent of fertile and unoccupied territory ...
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... able to maintain the children that may be expected to spring from them . And marriages are , in consequence , very generally de- ferred to a later period than in America , and a greater pro- portion of our people find it expedient to ...
... able to maintain the children that may be expected to spring from them . And marriages are , in consequence , very generally de- ferred to a later period than in America , and a greater pro- portion of our people find it expedient to ...
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... able to provide for their subsistence and education . And instead of this doctrine being , as has been often stated , unfavourable to human happiness , a material change for the better would undoubtedly be effected in the condition of ...
... able to provide for their subsistence and education . And instead of this doctrine being , as has been often stated , unfavourable to human happiness , a material change for the better would undoubtedly be effected in the condition of ...
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... able to save , or to acquire a stake in society , they have no inducement to make any unusual exertions . They conse- quently become indolent and dispirited ; and , if not pressed by hunger would be always idle . It is thus apparent ...
... able to save , or to acquire a stake in society , they have no inducement to make any unusual exertions . They conse- quently become indolent and dispirited ; and , if not pressed by hunger would be always idle . It is thus apparent ...
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... The wages or resources which may be able to support himself comfortably , may be insufficient for the support of two , or three , or four C individuals . And if he have no provision made beforehand CAPITAL AND POPULATION . 17.
... The wages or resources which may be able to support himself comfortably , may be insufficient for the support of two , or three , or four C individuals . And if he have no provision made beforehand CAPITAL AND POPULATION . 17.
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Página 67 - We trust our health to the physician ; our fortune, and sometimes our life and reputation, to the lawyer and attorney. Such confidence could not safely be reposed in people of a very mean or low condition. Their reward must be such, therefore, as may give them that rank in the society which so important a trust requires.
Página 46 - The liberal reward of labour," says Adam Smith, " as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry, of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.
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Página 34 - Smith, such a rate as will enable the labourer to obtain " not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Página 66 - He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding" moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion.
Página 40 - The best interests of society require that the rate of wages should be elevated as high as possible, — that a taste for the comforts, luxuries, and enjoyments of human life should be widely diffused, and if possible interwoven with national habits and prejudices.
Página 46 - ... receives. A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer ; and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days perhaps in ease and plenty, animates him to exert that strength to the utmost. Where wages are high, accordingly, we shall always find the workman more active, diligent, and expeditious, than where they are low ; in England, for example, than in Scotland; in the neighbourhood of great towns than in remote country places.