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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... Excessive Augmentation of the Numbers of a Community . - Propensity of Mankind to multiply too rapidly . Motives for restraining this Pro- pensity . Influence of such Motives upon People in easy Circumstances . Their utter Inefficacy ...
... Excessive Augmentation of the Numbers of a Community . - Propensity of Mankind to multiply too rapidly . Motives for restraining this Pro- pensity . Influence of such Motives upon People in easy Circumstances . Their utter Inefficacy ...
Страница viii
... excessive Increase of Population in Towns from natural Causes . Distress of Town Labourers , occa- sioned by the Withdrawal of their Occupation . - Immigration from rural Districts . Recapitulation of foregoing State- ments - - - - Page ...
... excessive Increase of Population in Towns from natural Causes . Distress of Town Labourers , occa- sioned by the Withdrawal of their Occupation . - Immigration from rural Districts . Recapitulation of foregoing State- ments - - - - Page ...
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... excessive agricultural Population . - Peculiar Cir- cumstances which have led to the minute Partition of Land in Ireland . Dissimilar Condition of England . -Actual Results of the Occupation of Land by the Peasantry in some Parts of ...
... excessive agricultural Population . - Peculiar Cir- cumstances which have led to the minute Partition of Land in Ireland . Dissimilar Condition of England . -Actual Results of the Occupation of Land by the Peasantry in some Parts of ...
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... excessive where people are to be found in a state of destitution , for this destitu- tion may proceed solely from indolence , or from bodily or mental infirmity . But wherever persons , able as well as willing to work , are for many ...
... excessive where people are to be found in a state of destitution , for this destitu- tion may proceed solely from indolence , or from bodily or mental infirmity . But wherever persons , able as well as willing to work , are for many ...
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... excessive without being dense . In almost every community , the owners of the soil , or of any considerable amount of other property , are a minority , and many of them must possess a greater quantity , or the means of producing or of ...
... excessive without being dense . In almost every community , the owners of the soil , or of any considerable amount of other property , are a minority , and many of them must possess a greater quantity , or the means of producing or 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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