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Wealth and Progress: A Critical Examination of the Wages Question George Gunton No preview available - 2018 |
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adoption aggregate agricultural laborers amount average Black Death capital causes cents a day cents a week century chapter cloth commodities consequently consumption cost of living creased demand ditions dollars duction economic and social effect employer enforced idleness Engel's Law England fact factory fall France Germany governed greater habits half-time Hence higher History of Prices hours of labor hundred improved income increase India industrial and social laborer's laboring classes law of wages less machinery manufacturers masses means natural nomic nominal wages obtain operation paid pauperism permanent piece-work Political Economy population pounds poverty price of labor price of wheat principle profits proportion prosperity rate of wages real wages reason reduced rent result rose Russia says shillings Sir James Graham social character social condition social influences social opportunities standard of living statute Statute of Laborers sudra ten-hour law tend theory tion towns trades true well-being whole
Popular passages
Page 192 - 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.
Page 125 - Here they should feed on fat beef and mutton, till nothing but their fulness should stint their stomachs; yea, they should feed on the labours of their own hands, enjoying a proportionable profit of their pains to themselves ; their beds should be good, and their bedfellows better, seeing the richest yeomen in England would not disdain to marry their daughters unto them...
Page 36 - The condition of the class can be bettered in no other way than by altering that proportion to their advantage : and every scheme for their benefit, which does not proceed on this as its foundation, is, for all permanent purposes, a delusion.
Page 36 - If wages are higher at one time or place than at another, if the subsistence and comfort of the class of hired labourers are more ample, it is for no other reason than because capital bears a greater proportion to population.
Page 175 - That the percentage of outlay for lodging or rent, and for fuel and light, is invariably the same, whatever the income.
Page 193 - ... can well fall into without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public without them.