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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... subsistence , in so far at least as they depend on their employment , is de- rived from wages ; and they are as evidently labourers as if they handled a shuttle or a spade , or held a plough . Even those to whom ample fortunes have ...
... subsistence , in so far at least as they depend on their employment , is de- rived from wages ; and they are as evidently labourers as if they handled a shuttle or a spade , or held a plough . Even those to whom ample fortunes have ...
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... subsistence falling to each labourer , or the rate of wages , depends on the proportion which the whole capital bears to the whole labouring population . If capital be in- creased , without a corresponding increase taking place in the ...
... subsistence falling to each labourer , or the rate of wages , depends on the proportion which the whole capital bears to the whole labouring population . If capital be in- creased , without a corresponding increase taking place in the ...
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... subsistence used by a people , they will , it is obvious , be powerfully affected by variations in their supply and price , 1 by the skill with which they are applied to their respective purposes , and the economy with which they are ...
... subsistence used by a people , they will , it is obvious , be powerfully affected by variations in their supply and price , 1 by the skill with which they are applied to their respective purposes , and the economy with which they are ...
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... subsistence and ac- commodation of the labourer , will especially depend on the productiveness of the soils that are under tillage . Were agriculture in the same state of advancement in any two countries , and the soils under ...
... subsistence and ac- commodation of the labourer , will especially depend on the productiveness of the soils that are under tillage . Were agriculture in the same state of advancement in any two countries , and the soils under ...
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... in all ages and countries so nearly the same , that it may , in the language of mathe- maticians , be considered as a constant quantity . However rapidly the means of subsistence have occasionally been in- creasing UNIVE.
... in all ages and countries so nearly the same , that it may , in the language of mathe- maticians , be considered as a constant quantity . However rapidly the means of subsistence have occasionally been in- creasing UNIVE.
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