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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... comparatively dense . A fertile soil may be made a means of rapidly increasing capital ; but that is all . Be- fore it can be cultivated capital must be provided for the sup- port of the labourers employed upon it , in like manner as it ...
... comparatively dense . A fertile soil may be made a means of rapidly increasing capital ; but that is all . Be- fore it can be cultivated capital must be provided for the sup- port of the labourers employed upon it , in like manner as it ...
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... comparatively extensive . It is obvious , too , that the increase of that portion of capital which consists of the food and other raw products required for the subsistence and ac- commodation of society , will especially depend on the ...
... comparatively extensive . It is obvious , too , that the increase of that portion of capital which consists of the food and other raw products required for the subsistence and ac- commodation of society , will especially depend on the ...
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... comparatively slow . The rate of wages in such countries may not , all things taken into account , differ very materially . But the situation of the labourers in new countries is , notwithstanding , generally preferable , inasmuch as ...
... comparatively slow . The rate of wages in such countries may not , all things taken into account , differ very materially . But the situation of the labourers in new countries is , notwithstanding , generally preferable , inasmuch as ...
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... comparatively dense population . But in America , as elsewhere , the best lands will , in the long run , be exhausted ; and wherever this is the case , increased supplies of food can only be had by resorting to such as are less fertile ...
... comparatively dense population . But in America , as elsewhere , the best lands will , in the long run , be exhausted ; and wherever this is the case , increased supplies of food can only be had by resorting to such as are less fertile ...
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... comparatively great , not checked by the prevalence of moral restraint , or the forethought of the people , it would be checked by the prevalence of want , misery , and famine . There is no alternative . The population of every country ...
... comparatively great , not checked by the prevalence of moral restraint , or the forethought of the people , it would be checked by the prevalence of want , misery , and famine . There is no alternative . The population of every country ...
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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.
Página 80 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
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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.