On Labour: Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues, Its Actual Present and Possible FutureMacmillan, 1870 - 499 pages |
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Page 23
... profit you if it were yours ? As it is , you are clothed in fine . linen , and if not in purple also , only because that colour is no longer in fashion for male apparel , and you fare sumptuously every day . You are not of course ...
... profit you if it were yours ? As it is , you are clothed in fine . linen , and if not in purple also , only because that colour is no longer in fashion for male apparel , and you fare sumptuously every day . You are not of course ...
Page 60
... profit . But if 300 at 6s . could be sold at a profit — and otherwise they would not be wanted at all - it is quite incredible that the only hundred to be got should not be worth more than 6s . ' Now , I must at least admit it to be ...
... profit . But if 300 at 6s . could be sold at a profit — and otherwise they would not be wanted at all - it is quite incredible that the only hundred to be got should not be worth more than 6s . ' Now , I must at least admit it to be ...
Page 65
... profit thereon , or at what is usually termed normal or natural price — would be the demand for any commodity , supply would be sure to accommodate itself to that demand . Pro- ducers would not send more to market , because , if they ...
... profit thereon , or at what is usually termed normal or natural price — would be the demand for any commodity , supply would be sure to accommodate itself to that demand . Pro- ducers would not send more to market , because , if they ...
Page 98
... profit as the proper analogue to what a labourer loses by postponing the sale of his labour . For , as he justly argues , a labourer's wages are not all clear profit . His net gain is no more than the difference between the quantity of ...
... profit as the proper analogue to what a labourer loses by postponing the sale of his labour . For , as he justly argues , a labourer's wages are not all clear profit . His net gain is no more than the difference between the quantity of ...
Page 99
... profit which the first profit might have enabled him to make if realised earlier . But , in the case of the labourer , even if any such second profit would not in general be quite out of the question , the first profit itself is ...
... profit which the first profit might have enabled him to make if realised earlier . But , in the case of the labourer , even if any such second profit would not in general be quite out of the question , the first profit itself is ...
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