Social and Economic Standards of LivingD. C. Heath, 1925 - 420 стор. |
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accepted adoption afforded agricultural American standards ards budgets clothing comfort conspicuous customary demands desire diet dress economic surplus employers Engel's laws equality Europe existing expenditures expression fact forces greater groups habits high standards higher social ideals imitation immigrants income increased indentured servants individual industrial influence inherited instances intellectual J. A. Hobson labor land latter leisure low standards lower social ment merchant middle class minimum subsistence level Miss Gibbs modern nomic organized ownership physical plane of living political possess possible poverty production Professor progress promote result rural Slav social aristocracy social classes social democracy social equality social prestige social standards social status social superiors social valuation soil southern European standards of living standards of social stimulating tendency tion trade trade union unskilled wages wants wealth well-being wholly women workers workingmen
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Сторінка 250 - ... ^We are the only animal species in which the female depends on the male for food, the only animal species in which the sex-relation is also an economic relation.
Сторінка 91 - The wilderness masters the colonist. It finds him a European in dress, industries, tools, modes of travel, and thought. It takes him from the railroad car and puts him in the birch canoe. It strips off the garments of civilization and arrays him in the hunting shirt and the moccasin. It puts him in the log cabin of the Cherokee and Iroquois and runs an Indian palisade around him. Before long he has gone to planting Indian corn and plowing with a sharp stick; he shouts the war cry and takes the scalp...
Сторінка 133 - The class of pioneers cannot live in regular society. They are too idle, too talkative, too passionate, too prodigal, and too shiftless to acquire either property or character.
Сторінка 174 - America's workers can not accept that proposition. They demand a progressively advancing standard of life. They have an abiding faith In a better future for all mankind. They discard and denounce a system of fixing wages solely on the basis of family budgets...
Сторінка 92 - It puts him in the log cabin of the Cherokee and Iroquois and runs an Indian palisade around him. Before long he has gone to planting Indian corn and plowing with a sharp stick; he shouts the war cry and takes the scalp in orthodox Indian fashion. In short, at the frontier the environment is at first too strong for the man. He must accept the conditions which it furnishes, or perish, and so he fits himself into the Indian clearings and follows the Indian trails. Little by little he transforms the...
Сторінка 100 - The ideal of the West was its emphasis upon the worth and possibilities of the common man, its belief in the right of every man to rise to the full measure of his own nature under conditions of social mobility.
Сторінка 34 - ... universal from lands where illiteracy predominates; it separates manufacturing countries, progressive agriculture, and skilled labor from primitive hand industries, backward agriculture, and unskilled labor; it separates an educated, thrifty peasantry from a peasantry scarcely a single generation removed from serfdom; it separates Teutonic races from Latin, Slav, Semitic, and Mongolian races.
Сторінка 69 - By which means those miserable people, both men and women, married and unmarried, old and young, with their poor but numerous families (since country business requires many hands), are all forced to change their seats, not knowing whither to go ; and they must sell almost for nothing their household stuff, which could not bring them much money, even though they might stay for a buyer.
Сторінка 366 - Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Сторінка 69 - When that little money is at an end, for it will be soon spent; what is left for them to do, but either to steal and so to be hanged (God knows how justly), or to go about and beg? And if they do this, they are put in prison as idle vagabonds; while they would willingly work, but can find none that will hire them...