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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... given period , that its power of supporting and employing labourers en- tirely depends . Holland is less fertile than Poland or Hun- gary , and Lancashire is less fertile than Kent ; but , owing to their greater command of capital , the ...
... given period , that its power of supporting and employing labourers en- tirely depends . Holland is less fertile than Poland or Hun- gary , and Lancashire is less fertile than Kent ; but , owing to their greater command of capital , the ...
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... given country , at any specified period , depends on the ratio between the portion of its capital appropriated to the payment of wages , and the number of its labourers . The next object , in the natural order of inquiry , is to ...
... given country , at any specified period , depends on the ratio between the portion of its capital appropriated to the payment of wages , and the number of its labourers . The next object , in the natural order of inquiry , is to ...
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... given to the increase of po- pulation , that the standard of human subsistence will be reduced to the lowest assignable limit , and that famine and pestilence will be perpetually at work to relieve the popula- tion of wretches born only ...
... given to the increase of po- pulation , that the standard of human subsistence will be reduced to the lowest assignable limit , and that famine and pestilence will be perpetually at work to relieve the popula- tion of wretches born only ...
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... given them security and free- dom . But the use or abuse of these inestimable advantages is their own affair . They may be either provident or improvi- dent , industrious or idle ; and being free to choose , they are alone responsible ...
... given them security and free- dom . But the use or abuse of these inestimable advantages is their own affair . They may be either provident or improvi- dent , industrious or idle ; and being free to choose , they are alone responsible ...
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... given them of maintaining themselves in their present position , or of rising to a higher . Such persons are to the poor what a treacherous guide is to a traveller in a strange country . They lead them from the only path that can ...
... given them of maintaining themselves in their present position , or of rising to a higher . Such persons are to the poor what a treacherous guide is to a traveller in a strange country . They lead them from the only path that can ...
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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.