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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... employ , the services of all will not be accepted , or if accepted , will be very scantily remunerated , and either food enough for all will not be raised , or when raised , part of it will be sent for sale to a foreign market . In ...
... employ , the services of all will not be accepted , or if accepted , will be very scantily remunerated , and either food enough for all will not be raised , or when raised , part of it will be sent for sale to a foreign market . In ...
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... employing them were not really wanting , but were merely misdirected . If official reports could be implicitly trusted , the condition of the peasantry in Norfolk and Suffolk would likewise be above the average . It may really have been ...
... employing them were not really wanting , but were merely misdirected . If official reports could be implicitly trusted , the condition of the peasantry in Norfolk and Suffolk would likewise be above the average . It may really have been ...
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... employed in them bears too small a pro- portion to the mass of the rural population , and the condition of rural operatives , as far as wages are concerned , differs too slightly from that of their brethren in towns , to require more ...
... employed in them bears too small a pro- portion to the mass of the rural population , and the condition of rural operatives , as far as wages are concerned , differs too slightly from that of their brethren in towns , to require more ...
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... employed . A short time back the greater part of this vast multi- tude seemed to be sunk in the lowest depth of misery . Thousands were absolutely unable to pro- cure employment , and might be seen standing in constrained idleness about ...
... employed . A short time back the greater part of this vast multi- tude seemed to be sunk in the lowest depth of misery . Thousands were absolutely unable to pro- cure employment , and might be seen standing in constrained idleness about ...
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... employed , 2866 partially employed , and 4148 able to work , were wholly without employment . The remaining 7605 persons were unable to work . The average weekly 36 RECENT DISTRESS.
... employed , 2866 partially employed , and 4148 able to work , were wholly without employment . The remaining 7605 persons were unable to work . The average weekly 36 RECENT DISTRESS.
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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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