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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... Farms . - Decay of Kelp Manufac- - Effects of Misery on the Character and Habits of the Poor . Usual Explanation of the excessive Population of Ireland . Its Incompleteness . - Primeval Poverty of the Irish Peasantry . -Pastoral ...
... Farms . - Decay of Kelp Manufac- - Effects of Misery on the Character and Habits of the Poor . Usual Explanation of the excessive Population of Ireland . Its Incompleteness . - Primeval Poverty of the Irish Peasantry . -Pastoral ...
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... Farms . Manner in which that Subdivision would affect Landowners and agricultural Labourers . Superior Productiveness of small Farms . High Rents obtainable for them . - Great Amount of human Labour required for their Cultivation ...
... Farms . Manner in which that Subdivision would affect Landowners and agricultural Labourers . Superior Productiveness of small Farms . High Rents obtainable for them . - Great Amount of human Labour required for their Cultivation ...
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... Farm Servants of fixed Proportions of the Crop . - Location of them on the Farm Premises . — Education . Its general Advantages . Inapplicability to the labouring Classes of the ordinary Modes of Teaching . Oral Instruc- tion . Sorts of ...
... Farm Servants of fixed Proportions of the Crop . - Location of them on the Farm Premises . — Education . Its general Advantages . Inapplicability to the labouring Classes of the ordinary Modes of Teaching . Oral Instruc- tion . Sorts of ...
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... farm in the summer , " and the right to four quarters of barley and two quarters of wheat at a low price . The total income of a single man so situated may be thus estimated : Yearly wages Annual value of cottage and of garden pro- duce ...
... farm in the summer , " and the right to four quarters of barley and two quarters of wheat at a low price . The total income of a single man so situated may be thus estimated : Yearly wages Annual value of cottage and of garden pro- duce ...
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... farm - servants are similarly well paid , and are likewise in general allotment - holders . It may be mentioned that , both in Lincolnshire and Rutland , the cottager frequently keeps a cow upon his land , and gets a daily supply of ...
... farm - servants are similarly well paid , and are likewise in general allotment - holders . It may be mentioned that , both in Lincolnshire and Rutland , the cottager frequently keeps a cow upon his land , and gets a daily supply 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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