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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... poverty . Had population increased less rapidly , fewer individuals would have been seeking for employment , their wages would consequently have been higher , and their situation so far improved . And such being the cause of the evil ...
... poverty . Had population increased less rapidly , fewer individuals would have been seeking for employment , their wages would consequently have been higher , and their situation so far improved . And such being the cause of the evil ...
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... poverty it seeks to relieve , disturb all the usual channels of industry , and become a potent in- strument of evil . It may , perhaps , be asked , though government be thus in- capable of contributing to increase wages by increasing ...
... poverty it seeks to relieve , disturb all the usual channels of industry , and become a potent in- strument of evil . It may , perhaps , be asked , though government be thus in- capable of contributing to increase wages by increasing ...
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... poverty , and to their habitual dependence on the potato . The right of property will never be respected by those who are destitute of all property , and whose wages are totally in- competent to afford them the means of acquiring it ...
... poverty , and to their habitual dependence on the potato . The right of property will never be respected by those who are destitute of all property , and whose wages are totally in- competent to afford them the means of acquiring it ...
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... 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 , that the lower we descend in the scale of society , the nearer we come to the haunts of vice , ...
... 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 , that the lower we descend in the scale of society , the nearer we come to the haunts of vice , ...
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... poverty on the same level as wealth ? It may be all very well so long as the Irishman has his potatoes , and the Indian his buffaloes . But what is their condition when these happen to fail ? They have no resource , nothing else upon ...
... poverty on the same level as wealth ? It may be all very well so long as the Irishman has his potatoes , and the Indian his buffaloes . But what is their condition when these happen to fail ? They have no resource , nothing else upon ...
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advantage amount become better Britain capital and population CHAPTER circumstances Combination Act comfort common comparatively condition conduct consequence considerable corn crease demand for labour depend depressed destitution diminished dition earnings effect employed ENCYCLOPEDIA endeavour engaged England equal exertion facilities of Production fall 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 London 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 potatoes poverty principle proper proportion quantity raise wages rate of wages reduced repeal respect rise savings-banks septier species statute subsistence supplies of food supposed tillage tion trade undertakings wages of labour WEALTH OF NATIONS wheaten bread Wood Engravings work-houses work-people workmen