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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... supposed to be unfavourable to their views . There are none who are more deeply interested in having the truth , as respects their situation , honestly and fairly stated than the work - people . It will be seen that at bottom they have ...
... supposed to be unfavourable to their views . There are none who are more deeply interested in having the truth , as respects their situation , honestly and fairly stated than the work - people . It will be seen that at bottom they have ...
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... supposed to have amounted to 1,265,000 in 1755 ; and as it amounted to 2,870,784 in 1851 , it would follow , on the prin- ciple already stated , that the capital of the country had re- quired nearly 76 years to double.1 In like manner ...
... supposed to have amounted to 1,265,000 in 1755 ; and as it amounted to 2,870,784 in 1851 , it would follow , on the prin- ciple already stated , that the capital of the country had re- quired nearly 76 years to double.1 In like manner ...
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... supposed that agricultural industry in the former would be about twice as productive as in the latter , and that the power which each country possesses of furnishing sup- plies of food , and other farm produce , would be in about that ...
... supposed that agricultural industry in the former would be about twice as productive as in the latter , and that the power which each country possesses of furnishing sup- plies of food , and other farm produce , would be in about that ...
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... supposed ; and that instead of varying in the same way , wages were generally lowest in years when the price of corn was highest . But it is not dif- ficult to explain the cause of this apparent anomaly . The truth is , that the number ...
... supposed ; and that instead of varying in the same way , wages were generally lowest in years when the price of corn was highest . But it is not dif- ficult to explain the cause of this apparent anomaly . The truth is , that the number ...
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... supposed to be the means of bringing into the market , time is afforded for the formation of those new and improved tastes and habits , which are not the hasty product of a day , a month , or a year , but the late result of a long ...
... supposed to be the means of bringing into the market , time is afforded for the formation of those new and improved tastes and habits , which are not the hasty product of a day , a month , or a year , but the late result of a long ...
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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 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.