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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... greater change for the better in the Condition of the Labourers . Influence of Taxation 92 CHAPTER IX . Friendly Societies . Savings Banks . Advantages of these Institutions . 102 CHAPTER X. Influence of Poor - Laws over the Condition ...
... greater change for the better in the Condition of the Labourers . Influence of Taxation 92 CHAPTER IX . Friendly Societies . Savings Banks . Advantages of these Institutions . 102 CHAPTER X. Influence of Poor - Laws over the Condition ...
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... greater command of capital , the population of the former is 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 ...
... greater command of capital , the population of the former is 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 ...
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... greater degree than the number of labourers , or the number of labourers be diminished in a greater degree than the amount of capital . Now this case is not peculiar to this or that country , but is of universal application . Labourers ...
... greater degree than the number of labourers , or the number of labourers be diminished in a greater degree than the amount of capital . Now this case is not peculiar to this or that country , but is of universal application . Labourers ...
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... greater weight of the public burdens in the more productive country , by de- fective institutions , a feeling of insecurity , or some such modifying principle . But where these do not occur , or where their influence is not sufficient ...
... greater weight of the public burdens in the more productive country , by de- fective institutions , a feeling of insecurity , or some such modifying principle . But where these do not occur , or where their influence is not sufficient ...
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... greater the amount of labour at his command , the more prosperous does he become . Hence , in America , while farming is low , profits are high . But in Great Britain , and other long - settled and densely peopled countries , the state ...
... greater the amount of labour at his command , the more prosperous does he become . Hence , in America , while farming is low , profits are high . But in Great Britain , and other long - settled and densely peopled countries , the state ...
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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.