Labor in Europe and America: A Special Report on the Rates of Wages, the Cost of Subsistence, and the Condition of the Working Classes in Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium and Other Countries of Europe, Also in the United States and British AmericaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1875 - 864 pages |
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... amount of land held by each class . According to this historian the number of soldiers , when the population of the military nomes was at its maximum , was 410,000 ; and , taking six acres as the amount assigned to each , the aggregate ...
... amount of land held by each class . According to this historian the number of soldiers , when the population of the military nomes was at its maximum , was 410,000 ; and , taking six acres as the amount assigned to each , the aggregate ...
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... amount in- cluded the allowance for subsistence to a hoplite ( a heavy armed soldier ) and his attendant . The pay of a hoplite was never less than 2 oboli per diem , with an equal amount for subsistence . This was the custom- ary rate ...
... amount in- cluded the allowance for subsistence to a hoplite ( a heavy armed soldier ) and his attendant . The pay of a hoplite was never less than 2 oboli per diem , with an equal amount for subsistence . This was the custom- ary rate ...
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... amount . Flute - players some- time obtained almost incredible prices for their services , and distin- guished actors equally large amounts . Thus Palus , or Aristodemus , is said to have earned a talent ( nearly $ 1,200 in gold ) in ...
... amount . Flute - players some- time obtained almost incredible prices for their services , and distin- guished actors equally large amounts . Thus Palus , or Aristodemus , is said to have earned a talent ( nearly $ 1,200 in gold ) in ...
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... amount to only 1663 drachmas a year , which is less than half the sum which Boeck thinks necessary even to 66 a very wretched existence . ” * But the number of wage - laborers in Greece was comparatively small , a great majority of the ...
... amount to only 1663 drachmas a year , which is less than half the sum which Boeck thinks necessary even to 66 a very wretched existence . ” * But the number of wage - laborers in Greece was comparatively small , a great majority of the ...
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... amount of the loan . These mortgages were in many instances foreclosed , and not only were the mortgaged lands taken from their proprietors , but the latter them- selves , together with their families , were frequently reduced to ...
... amount of the loan . These mortgages were in many instances foreclosed , and not only were the mortgaged lands taken from their proprietors , but the latter them- selves , together with their families , were frequently reduced to ...
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Page 18 - Zeboim toward the wilderness. (Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Page 20 - Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shall appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
Page 22 - When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 22 - ... stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Page 188 - The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.
Page 413 - For fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family : 2.
Page 21 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 191 - By the statute in question it is provided that "no employee shall be required, or permitted, to work in a biscuit, bread, or cake bakery, or confectionery establishment, more than sixty hours in any one week, or more than ten hours in any one day...
Page 21 - Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates : at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it ; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it : lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
Page 22 - Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.