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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... proper to mention , that it has bee bserved that the tendency of wages is not to rise , bu to fall , in unusually dear years . Several of the wi examined before Committees of the Houses of Lord Commons , on the state of agriculture in ...
... proper to mention , that it has bee bserved that the tendency of wages is not to rise , bu to fall , in unusually dear years . Several of the wi examined before Committees of the Houses of Lord Commons , on the state of agriculture in ...
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... proper suppor ceedingly degraded , the principle of accumulation always dominates in aggregate bodies over the passion for exp Wherever wages are so low as to render it impossible f ordinary increase of exertion to make any material ...
... proper suppor ceedingly degraded , the principle of accumulation always dominates in aggregate bodies over the passion for exp Wherever wages are so low as to render it impossible f ordinary increase of exertion to make any material ...
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... proper level . The policy of Great Britain , and of most other European nations , has added to the necessary cost of breeding up skilled labourers , by forcing them to serve as apprentices for a longer period than is in most cases ...
... proper level . The policy of Great Britain , and of most other European nations , has added to the necessary cost of breeding up skilled labourers , by forcing them to serve as apprentices for a longer period than is in most cases ...
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... proper parties being placed in the proper situations , and their wages adjusted according to their EQUALITY OF WAGES . 69 merits and the confidence reposed 68 EQUALITY OF WAGES .
... proper parties being placed in the proper situations , and their wages adjusted according to their EQUALITY OF WAGES . 69 merits and the confidence reposed 68 EQUALITY OF WAGES .
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... proper distribution of the labour employed , in any considerable undertaking , woul be so very fatal to its success , that we may be sure they will b carefully guarded against . The principle of detur digniori i the only one on which ...
... proper distribution of the labour employed , in any considerable undertaking , woul be so very fatal to its success , that we may be sure they will b carefully guarded against . The principle of detur digniori i the only one on which ...
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Página 30 - 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 42 - 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 114 - 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 63 - 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 society which so important a trust requires.
Página 64 - 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 trade, such as that of shoemakers or weavers, and you will find that the former sum will generally exceed the latter. But make the same computation with regard to all the counsellors and students of law, in all the different inns of court, and you will find that their annual gains bear but a very small proportion to their annual expence, even though...
Página 76 - 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 62 - 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 36 - 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.