On Labour: Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues, Its Actual Present and Possible FutureMacmillan, 1870 - 499 pages |
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... LABOUR'S CAUSES OF DISCONTENT PAGE • . 3 BOOK II . LABOUR AND CAPITAL IN DEBATE . CHAPTER I. OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND , AND OF THEIR INFLUENCE ON PRICE AND WAGES • 43 CHAPTER II . THE CLAIMS OF LABOUR , AND ITS RIGHTS III CHAPTER III . THE ...
... LABOUR'S CAUSES OF DISCONTENT PAGE • . 3 BOOK II . LABOUR AND CAPITAL IN DEBATE . CHAPTER I. OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND , AND OF THEIR INFLUENCE ON PRICE AND WAGES • 43 CHAPTER II . THE CLAIMS OF LABOUR , AND ITS RIGHTS III CHAPTER III . THE ...
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... labour than hands to perform it , ' and that the ' meanest labour in the nation afforded the workman sufficient to provide for himself and his family . ' * Not even Macaulay's eloquence and ingenuity can coun- tervail these sturdy ...
... labour than hands to perform it , ' and that the ' meanest labour in the nation afforded the workman sufficient to provide for himself and his family . ' * Not even Macaulay's eloquence and ingenuity can coun- tervail these sturdy ...
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... labour was cheap- est , ' it is very certain that in Kent and Sussex , and in the southern counties generally , where agricultural wages were on an average twice as high as in the north , and were supplemented in the same manner , the ...
... labour was cheap- est , ' it is very certain that in Kent and Sussex , and in the southern counties generally , where agricultural wages were on an average twice as high as in the north , and were supplemented in the same manner , the ...
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... labour , must needs be kept hard at it . Is not labour the appointed lot of man ? Has it not been ordained that he shall eat bread with the sweat of his brow ? that after refreshing himself with sleep , he shall go forth and pursue his ...
... labour , must needs be kept hard at it . Is not labour the appointed lot of man ? Has it not been ordained that he shall eat bread with the sweat of his brow ? that after refreshing himself with sleep , he shall go forth and pursue his ...
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... labour which we have been weighing in the balance , and have found wanting , is not only not the actual one , but is an imaginary amplification of it so great that if it were real ... labour has INTROD . ] LABOUR'S CAUSES OF DISCONTENT . 29.
... labour which we have been weighing in the balance , and have found wanting , is not only not the actual one , but is an imaginary amplification of it so great that if it were real ... labour has INTROD . ] LABOUR'S CAUSES OF DISCONTENT . 29.
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