On Labour: Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues, Its Actual Present and Possible FutureMacmillan, 1870 - 499 pages |
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Page 38
... employers to indoctrinate the employed on disputed points of economic science have usually gone so little way towards enforcing conviction . Too often in such instances precisely that ground 38 LABOUR'S CAUSES OF DISCONTENT . [ BOOK I.
... employers to indoctrinate the employed on disputed points of economic science have usually gone so little way towards enforcing conviction . Too often in such instances precisely that ground 38 LABOUR'S CAUSES OF DISCONTENT . [ BOOK I.
Page 85
... employers there be no wages funds - no definite or definable portions of their capitals which , and neither more nor less than which , they must severally apply to the hiring of labour - clearly there can be no aggregate of such funds ...
... employers there be no wages funds - no definite or definable portions of their capitals which , and neither more nor less than which , they must severally apply to the hiring of labour - clearly there can be no aggregate of such funds ...
Page 86
... employers may spend upon labour all they have got to spend , and cannot spend upon it more than they have got ; but we deny that they are under any obligation to spend upon it all they have got . We admit that if an employer were to ...
... employers may spend upon labour all they have got to spend , and cannot spend upon it more than they have got ; but we deny that they are under any obligation to spend upon it all they have got . We admit that if an employer were to ...
Page 87
... employers get all the labour they require , and if all the seekers for employment succeed in getting hired , there is as complete equation of supply and demand , whether the rate of hire be 6d . or 6s . But when an employer's demand for ...
... employers get all the labour they require , and if all the seekers for employment succeed in getting hired , there is as complete equation of supply and demand , whether the rate of hire be 6d . or 6s . But when an employer's demand for ...
Page 88
... employer will do this , how can the whole body of employers do it ? and if they do not , how can the same amount be spent upon labour , whether labour be cheap or dear ? and how , again , unless this be done , can there be a sum ...
... employer will do this , how can the whole body of employers do it ? and if they do not , how can the same amount be spent upon labour , whether labour be cheap or dear ? and how , again , unless this be done , can there be a sum ...
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