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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... Production and Exchange . Circumstances which have conspired to prevent the Inven- tions and Discoveries of the last half - century from effecting a greater change for the better in the Condition of the Labourers . Influence of Taxation ...
... Production and Exchange . Circumstances which have conspired to prevent the Inven- tions and Discoveries of the last half - century from effecting a greater change for the better in the Condition of the Labourers . Influence of Taxation ...
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... production , have been termed its capital . It conse- quently comprises , in advanced countries like England , an B 2 VARIETIES OF LABOUR . 3 CHAPTER Wages depend on the Magnitude of the Fund or Capital appro- priated to their payment ...
... production , have been termed its capital . It conse- quently comprises , in advanced countries like England , an B 2 VARIETIES OF LABOUR . 3 CHAPTER Wages depend on the Magnitude of the Fund or Capital appro- priated to their payment ...
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... produce obtained from the best lands under wheat in England and Wales varied from thirty - six to forty bushels an acre ; 1 while that obtained from the inferior lands did not ex- ceed eight or ten bushels . But in past times , when the ...
... produce obtained from the best lands under wheat in England and Wales varied from thirty - six to forty bushels an acre ; 1 while that obtained from the inferior lands did not ex- ceed eight or ten bushels . But in past times , when the ...
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... produce , would be in about that proportion . It is found , however , that theoretical conclusions of this sort are much modified in practice . Agricultural science may be equal , or nearly equal , in two countries , and yet their agri ...
... produce , would be in about that proportion . It is found , however , that theoretical conclusions of this sort are much modified in practice . Agricultural science may be equal , or nearly equal , in two countries , and yet their agri ...
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... produce to be divided between the undertakers of work in England and their labourers is less than in America , so that both parties have a less power of providing for the wants of a family . A number of children is not here , as in the ...
... produce to be divided between the undertakers of work in England and their labourers is less than in America , so that both parties have a less power of providing for the wants of a family . A number of children is not here , as in the ...
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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.