A Treatise on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages and Condition of the Labouring ClassesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 114 páginas |
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... carry fewer pieces of gold and silver to market than formerly ; but these would serve to buy the same quan- tity of commodities . Whatever , therefore , may be the state of money wages in a country - whether they are 1s . , 2s . , or 5s ...
... carry fewer pieces of gold and silver to market than formerly ; but these would serve to buy the same quan- tity of commodities . Whatever , therefore , may be the state of money wages in a country - whether they are 1s . , 2s . , or 5s ...
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... carry on the operations of industry had become deficient . But the principle of increase is quite as strong in Yorkshire or Normandy as it is in Kentucky or Illinois , and yet it is plainly impossible that the population of England or ...
... carry on the operations of industry had become deficient . But the principle of increase is quite as strong in Yorkshire or Normandy as it is in Kentucky or Illinois , and yet it is plainly impossible that the population of England or ...
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... carried on by such different agencies should be equally prosperous , is to suppose what is evidently contradictory and absurd . This is a matter in regard to which there is no longer any difference of opinion . It is now universally ...
... carried on by such different agencies should be equally prosperous , is to suppose what is evidently contradictory and absurd . This is a matter in regard to which there is no longer any difference of opinion . It is now universally ...
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... carried on by private parties , will be more successfully and economically prosecuted by them than by the servants of government ; and that any advantage that may seem to arise in any particular case , from employing the latter , will ...
... carried on by private parties , will be more successfully and economically prosecuted by them than by the servants of government ; and that any advantage that may seem to arise in any particular case , from employing the latter , will ...
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... carried to an excess , and of the country being deprived of an adequate supply of labour . But we are disposed to regard this apprehension as being in a great degree visionary . Previously to 1846 , labour in Ireland was a mere drug ...
... carried to an excess , and of the country being deprived of an adequate supply of labour . But we are disposed to regard this apprehension as being in a great degree visionary . Previously to 1846 , labour in Ireland was a mere drug ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Smith advance of wages advantage amount become Britain Combination Act combination laws comfort common comparatively condition conduct consequence considerable crease degree demand for labour depend depressed destitution diminished dition earnings effect employed employment endeavour engaged England equal exertion facility fall famine forethought 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 manufacturing marriages masters means ment natural or necessary necessaries and conveniences necessary rate number of labourers obtain occasion paid parties period poor portion potatoes poverty principle productive proper proportion quantity raise wages rate of wages reduced regard repeal respect rise savings-banks septier sort statute subsistence sufficient supplies of food supposed tillage tion trade wages of labour Wealth of Nations well-being wheaten bread work-houses work-people workmen
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Página 65 - 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 31 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which 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 43 - 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 113 - An instructed and intelligent people, besides, are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. They feel themselves, each individually, more respectable, and more likely to obtain the respect of their lawful superiors, and they are therefore more disposed to respect those superiors.
Página 66 - How extravagant soever the fees of counsellors-at-law may sometimes appear, their real retribution is never equal to this. Compute in any particular place, what is likely to be annually gained, and what is likely to be annually spent, by all the different workmen in any common...
Página 78 - 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.
Página 43 - The liberal reward of labour, 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. 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...
Página 37 - The example of such individuals, or bodies of individuals, as submit quietly to have their wages reduced, and who are content if they get only the mere necessaries of life, ought never to be held up for public imitation. On the contrary, every thing should be done to make such apathy be esteemed disgraceful.