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, 1854 - 117 páginas |
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... cause of this discrepancy in the rates at which capital and population increase in different countries , is to be found in the circumstance of industry being more productive in some than in others . Capital consists of the accumulated ...
... cause of this discrepancy in the rates at which capital and population increase in different countries , is to be found in the circumstance of industry being more productive in some than in others . Capital consists of the accumulated ...
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... cause of poverty . It is now too late to contend that a crowded population is a sure sympton of national pros- perity . The population of the United States is not nearly so dense as that of Ireland ; but will any one say that they are ...
... cause of poverty . It is now too late to contend that a crowded population is a sure sympton of national pros- perity . The population of the United States is not nearly so dense as that of Ireland ; but will any one say that they are ...
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... cause of the want of demand for the labour of the Irish people , and of their abject poverty . Had population increased less rapidly , fewer individuals would have been seeking for employment , their wages would consequently have been ...
... cause of the want of demand for the labour of the Irish people , and of their abject poverty . Had population increased less rapidly , fewer individuals would have been seeking for employment , their wages would consequently have been ...
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... cause of this apparent anomaly . The truth is , that the number of labourers , which is never imme- diately reduced , is , in most cases , immediately increased by a rise of prices . In dear years , a greater number of females , and of ...
... cause of this apparent anomaly . The truth is , that the number of labourers , which is never imme- diately reduced , is , in most cases , immediately increased by a rise of prices . In dear years , a greater number of females , and of ...
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... cause of the depressed condition of the peasantry in the counties referred to . Their greater dependence on the po- tato , by enabling them to subsist and increase their numbers on a less expensive food , has reduced their wages ; and ...
... cause of the depressed condition of the peasantry in the counties referred to . Their greater dependence on the po- tato , by enabling them to subsist and increase their numbers on a less expensive food , has reduced their wages ; and ...
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Adam Smith advance of wages advantage amount become bourers Britain carried circumstances Combination Act comfort comparatively condition conduct consequence considerable corn creased degree depend depressed destitution diminished earnings effect emigration employed employment engaged England equal exertions facility fertile forethought former friendly societies greater habits high wages idle improved improvident increase of capital individuals industry influence injurious interest Ireland Irish labouring classes land latter less Lord John Russell manufactures marriages masters means natural or necessary necessaries and conveniences necessary rate nexion number of labourers obtain occasioned paid parties peasantry perhaps period poor potatoes poverty principle production proper proportion quantity raise wages rate of wages reduced regard respect rise savings banks septier sort statute strikes and combinations subsistence supplies of food supposed tillage tion trade truth unfavourable wages of labour Wealth of Nations well-being wheaten bread work-houses work-people workmen
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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.