On Labour: Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues, Its Actual Present and Possible FutureMacmillan, 1870 - 499 pages |
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... paid in the metropolis for a ton , will now purchase nearly as much again . Hats , boots and shoes , and every intermediate article of attire , may now , with a little management , be had at prices from one half to two thirds of what ...
... paid in the metropolis for a ton , will now purchase nearly as much again . Hats , boots and shoes , and every intermediate article of attire , may now , with a little management , be had at prices from one half to two thirds of what ...
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... paid if they gained 6s . a week . Then , referring to the register of prices which , since 1729 , has been kept in Greenwich Hospital , he finds that the daily earnings of the bricklayers , masons , and carpenters employed in the repair ...
... paid if they gained 6s . a week . Then , referring to the register of prices which , since 1729 , has been kept in Greenwich Hospital , he finds that the daily earnings of the bricklayers , masons , and carpenters employed in the repair ...
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... paid in his time as in ours . If in some few places there were weavers earning only 6s . a week or less , so likewise are there now , and the explanation is the same in both cases , and is to be sought in the local decay or in the ...
... paid in his time as in ours . If in some few places there were weavers earning only 6s . a week or less , so likewise are there now , and the explanation is the same in both cases , and is to be sought in the local decay or in the ...
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... paid 8s . In the same market , with the same quantity of fish for sale , and with customers in number and every other respect the same , the same lot of fish might fetch two very different prices . This is a sufficiently noteworthy case ...
... paid 8s . In the same market , with the same quantity of fish for sale , and with customers in number and every other respect the same , the same lot of fish might fetch two very different prices . This is a sufficiently noteworthy case ...
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... paid for labour whatever its price may be . ' But though as a rule it be true that demand increases with cheapness , it is certainly very seldom , if ever , that demand increases in the same ratio as cheapness . Few of us , if bread or ...
... paid for labour whatever its price may be . ' But though as a rule it be true that demand increases with cheapness , it is certainly very seldom , if ever , that demand increases in the same ratio as cheapness . Few of us , if bread or ...
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