A Treatise on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages and the Condition of the Labouring ClassesLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851 - 114 páginas |
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... reduced . To illustrate this principle , let us suppose that the capital of a country , annually appropriated to the payment of wages , amounts to L.30,000,000 sterling . If there were two millions of labourers in that country , it is ...
... reduced . To illustrate this principle , let us suppose that the capital of a country , annually appropriated to the payment of wages , amounts to L.30,000,000 sterling . If there were two millions of labourers in that country , it is ...
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... reduced a half , the rate of wages , estimated in money , would decline to the same ex- tent . But unless some change took place at the same time in the magnitude of that portion of the national capital , which consists of the food ...
... reduced a half , the rate of wages , estimated in money , would decline to the same ex- tent . But unless some change took place at the same time in the magnitude of that portion of the national capital , which consists of the food ...
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... reduced to the smallest pittance that will suffice for their support . It is indispens- able that principles , pregnant with such important results , should be carefully investigated . CHAPTER II . Comparative Increase of Capital and ...
... reduced to the smallest pittance that will suffice for their support . It is indispens- able that principles , pregnant with such important results , should be carefully investigated . CHAPTER II . Comparative Increase of Capital and ...
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... 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 to be starved . Mr Malthus was probably the first who conclusively showed that ...
... 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 to be starved . Mr Malthus was probably the first who conclusively showed that ...
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... reduced to comparative poverty , and be forced , perhaps , to take refuge in a workhouse ? There is no deny- ing this conclusion ; and a conviction of its truth will not tend to obstruct any really desirable union . It will only tend to ...
... reduced to comparative poverty , and be forced , perhaps , to take refuge in a workhouse ? There is no deny- ing this conclusion ; and a conviction of its truth will not tend to obstruct any really desirable union . It will only tend to ...
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