The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns, Том 3Chalmers & Collins, 1826 |
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acts of violence alarm allowance altogether apprehended Barton Bendish better capital capitalists cause circumstances classes coals colliers combination laws comfort committee commodity competition consequence corn laws deficiency demand Dublin economy effect emigration employ employers employment England evil examination excess expense experience families feel force foreign former give Government greater habit hand Henry Heath higher idle imagination importance increase industry instance Kilmarnock land legislation length liberty lower orders maintenance Malthus marriages masters ment Michael Farrell mischief nation natural necessary number of labourers operation outrages parish pauperism peasantry persons poor poor laws poor-rate population Portugal present price of labour principle Procurator Fiscal produce profit proportion remuneration repeal rience rise Robert Hutton Scotland season shillings shipwrights society strike subsistence suffer sumers supernumeraries supply sure tain thing tion trade tural union virtue wages week wherewith whole wonted workmen
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Сторінка 34 - ... more that they can save and retrench upon in a year of severe scarcity. They can disengage much of that revenue which before went to the purchase of dress, and of various luxuries that might, for a season, be dispensed with — and so have the more to expend on the materials of subsistence. It is this which explains how roughly a population can bear to be handled, both by adverse seasons, and by the vicissitudes of trade — and how, after all, there is a stability about a people's means which...
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Сторінка 310 - Great Britain seems to support with ease a burden which, half a century ago, nobody believed her capable of supporting. Let us not, however, upon this account, rashly conclude that she is capable of supporting any burden, nor even be too confident that she could support, without great distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her.
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Сторінка 147 - ... be finished, or, not being hired, to refuse to enter into work or employment, or to regulate the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade or business, or the management thereof, shall not therefore be subject or liable to any indictment or prosecution for conspiracy, or to any other criminal information or punishment whatever, under the common or the statute law.
Сторінка 30 - ... a right estimation upon this subject. He has only to remember, that either by adding to the supply of any article, or lessening the demand for it, the price of it is diminished ; and that either by lessening the supply, or adding to the demand, the price of it is increased. Now there are certain articles, that, in this...
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