 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Economics - 1907 - 732 pages
...frequently without any. What he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him when he is idle, but make him some compensation for those...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1909 - 676 pages
...his customers. He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns, Ijherefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while...desponding moments which the thought of so precarious i situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers,... | |
 | Sidney Webb, Arnold James Freeman - Casual labor - 1912 - 436 pages
...with Dr. Smith that the wages of irregular workers should afford them " some compensation for their anxious and desponding moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion."1 Nassau Senior, who also repeats Adam Smith, believes that the anxious and desponding moments... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1916 - 788 pages
...different occupations vary with V constancy and inconstancy of employment. What the bricklayer earns " while he is employed, must not only maintain him while...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." He compared the skill and earnings of bricklayers with those of other wageearners, and concluded that... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1916 - 770 pages
...different occupations vary with constancy and inconstancy of employment. What the bricklayer earns " while he is employed, must not only maintain him while...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." He compared the skill and earnings of bricklayers with those of other wageearners, and concluded that... | |
 | Lorinda Perry, Susan Myra Kingsbury - Hats - 1916 - 170 pages
...4 4 — — 1 2 9 16 22 12 7 8 11 4 2.2 9.9 17.6 24.1 13.2 7.7 8.8 12.1 4.4 Total 66 12 13 91 100.0 he is employed, must not only maintain him while he...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. ' ' 1 This requirement can not be met by millinery makers, as a study of the average weekly wage throughout... | |
 | Lorinda Perry - Millinery - 1916 - 142 pages
...$7.00 and less than $8.00 8 3 — 11 12.1 $8.00 and less than $9.00 2 1 1 4 4.4 Total 66 12 13 91 100.0 he is employed, must not only maintain him while he...thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion."1 This requirement can not be met by millinery makers, as a study of the average weekly wage... | |
 | Frederick Cecil Mills - Public welfare - 1917 - 220 pages
...employment.1 The more inconstant the employment the higher will be the wage, for " What he earns . . . while he is employed, must not only maintain him while...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." This principle is repeated by Smith's successors for over one hundred years, practically unquestioned... | |
 | Economics - 1919 - 608 pages
...only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and despondent moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." To this Malthus contributed his theory of population. Practice, however, showed that the increase of... | |
 | Economics - 1919 - 546 pages
...only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and despondent moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." To this Malthus contributed his theory of population. Practice, however, showed that the increase of... | |
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A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard frost nor in foul weather, and his employment at all other times depends upon the occasional calls of his customers. He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns,... 
