Principles of Social Science (1858-1859)A. M. Kelley, 1963 - Economics |
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... wages in the fourteenth and fifteenth cen- turies . Employment was to the last degree temporary , as may be seen from the vast numbers required to do a little work in har- vest - the wages of a single day having been required to furnish ...
... wages in the fourteenth and fifteenth cen- turies . Employment was to the last degree temporary , as may be seen from the vast numbers required to do a little work in har- vest - the wages of a single day having been required to furnish ...
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... wages are paid , has been diminished . Availing themselves of the gratuitous bounty of nature , by making use of the forces which she freely lends to human intelligence , the workman may take an increase of his wages , the capitalist ...
... wages are paid , has been diminished . Availing themselves of the gratuitous bounty of nature , by making use of the forces which she freely lends to human intelligence , the workman may take an increase of his wages , the capitalist ...
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... wages for a week , he then ( 1810 ) could have but 80 pints ; and , since his day , another writer has ven- tured to assert that , in 1495 , he could have 199 pints , or more than three bushels , for that amount of labor . = What were ...
... wages for a week , he then ( 1810 ) could have but 80 pints ; and , since his day , another writer has ven- tured to assert that , in 1495 , he could have 199 pints , or more than three bushels , for that amount of labor . = What were ...
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VOL | 17 |
Production grows as the power of the trader and transporter declines | 24 |
The more continuous and steady the societary motion the more instant | 38 |
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