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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... never be forgotten , that legislation , when most successful , merely improves , to a greater or less extent , the condition of the labourers generally . It does nothing peculiar for individuals . It leaves them where they should and ...
... never be forgotten , that legislation , when most successful , merely improves , to a greater or less extent , the condition of the labourers generally . It does nothing peculiar for individuals . It leaves them where they should and ...
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... 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 poor children of both sexes , are obliged to engage in some species of employment ...
... 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 poor children of both sexes , are obliged to engage in some species of employment ...
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... never , except in the rare cases already mentioned , suddenly effected . Gene- rally speaking , it requires a considerable time before it can be brought about ; and hence an extreme risk arises lest the tastes and habits of the ...
... never , except in the rare cases already mentioned , suddenly effected . Gene- rally speaking , it requires a considerable time before it can be brought about ; and hence an extreme risk arises lest the tastes and habits of the ...
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... never be held up for public imitation . On the contrary , everything should be done to make such apathy be esteemed discreditable . The best interests of society re- quire that the rate of wages should be elevated as high as possible ...
... never be held up for public imitation . On the contrary , everything should be done to make such apathy be esteemed discreditable . The best interests of society re- quire that the rate of wages should be elevated as high as possible ...
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... never be respected by those who are destitute of all property , and whose wages are totally incom petent to afford them the means of its acquisition . Such per- sons are disposed to regard it rather as a bulwark thrown up to secure the ...
... never be respected by those who are destitute of all property , and whose wages are totally incom petent to afford them the means of its acquisition . Such per- sons are disposed to regard it rather as a bulwark thrown up to secure the ...
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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.