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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... sufficient accuracy for our purpose , by referring to the pro- gress of population , and the habits of the bulk of the people . The statements already made show that the inhabitants of a country , supposing them to have the same , or ...
... sufficient accuracy for our purpose , by referring to the pro- gress of population , and the habits of the bulk of the people . The statements already made show that the inhabitants of a country , supposing them to have the same , or ...
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... sufficient to countervail the superior productiveness of industry , the means of accumulation will be comparatively extensive . It is obvious , too , that the increase of that portion of capital which consists of the food and other raw ...
... sufficient to countervail the superior productiveness of industry , the means of accumulation will be comparatively extensive . It is obvious , too , that the increase of that portion of capital which consists of the food and other raw ...
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... sufficiently proves , that the power which men possess of increasing their numbers , is sufficiently strong to make population keep pace with the progress of capital , in nations possessed of boundless tracts of fertile and unoccupied ...
... sufficiently proves , that the power which men possess of increasing their numbers , is sufficiently strong to make population keep pace with the progress of capital , in nations possessed of boundless tracts of fertile and unoccupied ...
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... sufficiently elevated , or in which the principle of augmentation is not 1 See these causes specified in the Statistical account of the British Empire . Vol . i . pp . 438-445 . powerfully countervailed by the operation of moral ...
... sufficiently elevated , or in which the principle of augmentation is not 1 See these causes specified in the Statistical account of the British Empire . Vol . i . pp . 438-445 . powerfully countervailed by the operation of moral ...
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... sufficient quantity of food , and of the other articles required for their support , and that of their families . This is the lowest amount to which the rate of wages can be permanently reduced ; and it is for this reason that it has ...
... sufficient quantity of food , and of the other articles required for their support , and that of their families . This is the lowest amount to which the rate of wages can be permanently reduced ; and it is for this reason that it has ...
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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.