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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... Effects of Misery on the Character and Habits of the Poor . Usual Explanation of the excessive Population of Ireland ... Effect of this Improvement upon Population . - Contrast between Ulster and the Rest of Ireland . — Tenant Right ...
... Effects of Misery on the Character and Habits of the Poor . Usual Explanation of the excessive Population of Ireland ... Effect of this Improvement upon Population . - Contrast between Ulster and the Rest of Ireland . — Tenant Right ...
Страница ix
... Effect of Free Trade upon the Demand for agricultural Labour . — Subdivision of Farms . Manner in which that Subdivision would affect Landowners and agricultural Labourers . Superior Productiveness of small Farms . High Rents obtainable ...
... Effect of Free Trade upon the Demand for agricultural Labour . — Subdivision of Farms . Manner in which that Subdivision would affect Landowners and agricultural Labourers . Superior Productiveness of small Farms . High Rents obtainable ...
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... Effects already obtained from this Measure . - Possibility of providing for the whole Body of Peasantry by means of a Partition of waste Land . - Duty of Parliament to adopt a Scheme for that Purpose . - Repeal of the Union with Great ...
... Effects already obtained from this Measure . - Possibility of providing for the whole Body of Peasantry by means of a Partition of waste Land . - Duty of Parliament to adopt a Scheme for that Purpose . - Repeal of the Union with Great ...
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... effect . The subject is too serious for such trifling . They are a plain and temperate represent- ation of the recent condition of English operatives ( the modern appellation for manufacturing labour- ers ) , OF MANUFACTURING OPERATIVES .
... effect . The subject is too serious for such trifling . They are a plain and temperate represent- ation of the recent condition of English operatives ( the modern appellation for manufacturing labour- ers ) , OF MANUFACTURING OPERATIVES .
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... effects , and had not yet applied for relief . John Daniels ( his name deserves to be recorded ) , a silk - weaver , with a wife and five children , having been long without work , was obliged to apply to the parish , and obtained an ...
... effects , and had not yet applied for relief . John Daniels ( his name deserves to be recorded ) , a silk - weaver , with a wife and five children , having been long without work , was obliged to apply to the parish , and obtained an ...
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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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