Trusts and the State: A Sketch of CompetitionG. Richards, 1901 - 318 стор. |
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... workmen organised in a rude fashion , and appealed to Parliament to maintain the old customs of a legal wage and the limitation of apprentices . The woollen weavers of the West of England secured an Act in 1756 directing the justices to ...
... workmen organised in a rude fashion , and appealed to Parliament to maintain the old customs of a legal wage and the limitation of apprentices . The woollen weavers of the West of England secured an Act in 1756 directing the justices to ...
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... workmen . In the early years of the century the workmen were certainly , and with good reason , turbulent , and the masters hoped that " when capital enlists science into her service , the refractory hand of labour will always be taught ...
... workmen . In the early years of the century the workmen were certainly , and with good reason , turbulent , and the masters hoped that " when capital enlists science into her service , the refractory hand of labour will always be taught ...
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... workmen , whom an enlightened public opinion denounced as " idle , extrava- gant , and profligate , " were sending their own children into the factories . The first to yield may have merited that description , but the real compelling ...
... workmen , whom an enlightened public opinion denounced as " idle , extrava- gant , and profligate , " were sending their own children into the factories . The first to yield may have merited that description , but the real compelling ...
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... workmen's unions . The axioms of the Smithian political philosophy , rapidly springing into favour , seemed also to dictate the prohibition of any intervention between buyer and seller in the market for labour . Lastly , the growing ...
... workmen's unions . The axioms of the Smithian political philosophy , rapidly springing into favour , seemed also to dictate the prohibition of any intervention between buyer and seller in the market for labour . Lastly , the growing ...
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... of victims expiated in prison their devotion to their fellows . To legal violence the workmen replied with private violence , and Mrs. Gaskell in Mary Barton gives a biassed but not untrue representation of the state 52 Trusts and the ...
... of victims expiated in prison their devotion to their fellows . To legal violence the workmen replied with private violence , and Mrs. Gaskell in Mary Barton gives a biassed but not untrue representation of the state 52 Trusts and the ...
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Сторінка 7 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Сторінка 8 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally or, rather, necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Сторінка 91 - German factories, the young work seventeen hours in the twenty-four, that they work so hard that among thousands there is not one who grows to such a stature that he can be...
Сторінка 248 - To commence the manufacture of such articles as the Society may determine upon, for the employment of such members as may be without employment, or who may be suffering in consequence of repeated reductions in their wages.
Сторінка 75 - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance, and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring.
Сторінка 25 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable, as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
Сторінка 86 - Mine is that masculine species of charity which would lead me to inculcate in the minds of the labouring classes the love of independence, the privilege of self-respect, the disdain of being patronised or petted, the desire to accumulate, and the ambition to rise.
Сторінка 26 - It is not impossible, therefore, that some of the regulations of this famous act may have proceeded from national animosity. They are as wise, however, as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom.
Сторінка 57 - As the easy, regular, healthy, rational employment of the individuals forming these societies will create a very large surplus of their own products, beyond what they will have any desire to consume, each may be freely permitted to receive from the general store of the community whatever they may require. This, in practice, will prove to be the greatest economy...
Сторінка 91 - Never will I believe that what makes a population stronger, and healthier, and wiser, and better, can ultimately make it poorer.