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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... doubt be a gross exaggeration , but it cannot be denied that it would hold good of particular parts of them . The extreme destitution of the Irish peasantry has long been proverbial , and it now appears that a counterpart to it may be ...
... doubt be a gross exaggeration , but it cannot be denied that it would hold good of particular parts of them . The extreme destitution of the Irish peasantry has long been proverbial , and it now appears that a counterpart to it may be ...
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... doubt- less had its effect in preventing them from rising so high as they otherwise might have done . At all events , profits were high enough to induce the masters not only to continue , but greatly to extend , their transactions ; and ...
... doubt- less had its effect in preventing them from rising so high as they otherwise might have done . At all events , profits were high enough to induce the masters not only to continue , but greatly to extend , their transactions ; and ...
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... doubt , that in spite of the adoption of machinery in almost every branch of industry , there must be a greater aggregate demand for human labour at this than at any previous period . As therefore the total amount of employment has ...
... doubt , that in spite of the adoption of machinery in almost every branch of industry , there must be a greater aggregate demand for human labour at this than at any previous period . As therefore the total amount of employment has ...
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... doubt that shepherds or herdsmen were the first occupiers of almost every country , for independently of other arguments in favour of that opinion , the rapid migrations of vast multitudes from one side of the globe to the other , which ...
... doubt that shepherds or herdsmen were the first occupiers of almost every country , for independently of other arguments in favour of that opinion , the rapid migrations of vast multitudes from one side of the globe to the other , which ...
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... doubt , have been required to induce wealthy foreigners to migrate to so ill - favoured a region , and to expend their capital in fertilising such an ungrateful soil ; but it is not impossible to conjecture adequate motives for their ...
... doubt , have been required to induce wealthy foreigners to migrate to so ill - favoured a region , and to expend their capital in fertilising such an ungrateful soil ; but it is not impossible to conjecture adequate motives for their ...
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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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