Over-population and Its Remedy, Or, An Inquiry Into the Extent and Causes of the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the British Islands, and Into the Means of Remedying itLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 446 страница |
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... Cultivation . - Cottage Allotments - Their Advantages . Examination of their supposed Tendency to create an excessive agricultural Population . - Peculiar Cir- cumstances which have led to the minute Partition of Land in Ireland ...
... Cultivation . - Cottage Allotments - Their Advantages . Examination of their supposed Tendency to create an excessive agricultural Population . - Peculiar Cir- cumstances which have led to the minute Partition of Land in Ireland ...
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... Cultivation for the full Employment of the Peasantry . Defectiveness of the pre- sent Tenure of Land . - Exorbitance of Rents . Want of Leases . Profit experienced from the liberal Application of Labour to Agriculture . - Baselessness ...
... Cultivation for the full Employment of the Peasantry . Defectiveness of the pre- sent Tenure of Land . - Exorbitance of Rents . Want of Leases . Profit experienced from the liberal Application of Labour to Agriculture . - Baselessness ...
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... cultivated , or may export provi- sions , is nevertheless overpeopled . It must be observed , however , that in order to indicate over- population , the distress of the working class must be of long continuance , for merely temporary ...
... cultivated , or may export provi- sions , is nevertheless overpeopled . It must be observed , however , that in order to indicate over- population , the distress of the working class must be of long continuance , for merely temporary ...
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... cultivated in their spare hours , has now become pretty general , and adds * Reports on Employment of Women and Children in Agri- culture , 1843 . † Hansard's Parl . Deb . , 12th March , 1844 . greatly to their resources . Half an acre ...
... cultivated in their spare hours , has now become pretty general , and adds * Reports on Employment of Women and Children in Agri- culture , 1843 . † Hansard's Parl . Deb . , 12th March , 1844 . greatly to their resources . Half an acre ...
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... cultivate with their own hands , procur- ing from their little freeholds not only every neces- sary article of food , but also the raw materials of clothing , which they ... cultivation and the opportunities for employment . 18 CONDITION OF.
... cultivate with their own hands , procur- ing from their little freeholds not only every neces- sary article of food , but also the raw materials of clothing , which they ... cultivation and the opportunities for employment . 18 CONDITION OF.
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able able-bodied abundance acres additional afford agricultural labourers allotment amount annual average better cause cheap clothing comfort conacre condition consequence considerable corn Corn Laws cottage crofters cultivation demand destitution distress districts Dorsetshire earnings effect employed employment enable England equally estates excessive expense farmers farms foreign free trade greater habits Highland improvement income increase industry inhabitants Ireland Irish labouring class land landlords latter least Leinster less Lincolnshire live livelihood manufactures marriage means of subsistence ment misery Munster neighbours Norway number of persons obtain occupiers over-population parish paupers peasantry Poor Law poor's rates population portion possession potatoes poverty present probably procure produce profit proportion proprietors provisions quantity raised rate of wages reduced relief rent scarcely Scotland serfs servants shillings soil Statute of Labourers Stockport sufficient supply tenants tillage tion towns tural villenage waste land wealth weavers week whole workhouse
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