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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... preventing one set of Workmen from obstructing others in their Employ- ments , 69 CHAPTER VIII . Interests of the ... prevent the Inven- tions and Discoveries of the last half - century from effecting a greater change for the better ...
... preventing one set of Workmen from obstructing others in their Employ- ments , 69 CHAPTER VIII . Interests of the ... prevent the Inven- tions and Discoveries of the last half - century from effecting a greater change for the better ...
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... - ous , several unfounded inferences have been deduced from it . And , to prevent misconception , it may be right to state at the outset , that the condition or well - being of 6 PROPORTION OF CAPITAL TO POPULATION .
... - ous , several unfounded inferences have been deduced from it . And , to prevent misconception , it may be right to state at the outset , that the condition or well - being of 6 PROPORTION OF CAPITAL TO POPULATION .
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... prevent its being sent to the then overloaded markets of England . But it is unnecessary to go back to 1821 for an example of this sort . Notwithstanding the all but total failure of the po- tato crop of 1846 in all parts of Ireland ...
... prevent its being sent to the then overloaded markets of England . But it is unnecessary to go back to 1821 for an example of this sort . Notwithstanding the all but total failure of the po- tato crop of 1846 in all parts of Ireland ...
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... preventing old age and sickness from being driven to seek an asylum in workhouses and hospitals . Poverty , like vice , is never so little feared as it is by those who are already entangled in its meshes . It is a familiar observation ...
... preventing old age and sickness from being driven to seek an asylum in workhouses and hospitals . Poverty , like vice , is never so little feared as it is by those who are already entangled in its meshes . It is a familiar observation ...
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... prevent young men from entering on board ship , and thus , by artificially lessening the supply of sailors , raise their wages above their natural level , to the extreme injury both of the queen's and the merchant service . " The custom ...
... prevent young men from entering on board ship , and thus , by artificially lessening the supply of sailors , raise their wages above their natural level , to the extreme injury both of the queen's and the merchant service . " The custom ...
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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.