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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... - Encouragement given to Marriage by the Poor Laws . Increase of National Wealth . - Rapid Progress of Population . - Improvement in the Condition of - ―com -- - - the Peasantry in the ten Years ending CONTENTS . vii.
... - Encouragement given to Marriage by the Poor Laws . Increase of National Wealth . - Rapid Progress of Population . - Improvement in the Condition of - ―com -- - - the Peasantry in the ten Years ending CONTENTS . vii.
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... Increase of the national Wealth . — Reform of the Poor Laws in 1834. — Beneficial Consequences of the Change . Recurrence of Distress among agricultural Labourers . Deterioration of their Condition since 1836.- Results of the Census of ...
... Increase of the national Wealth . — Reform of the Poor Laws in 1834. — Beneficial Consequences of the Change . Recurrence of Distress among agricultural Labourers . Deterioration of their Condition since 1836.- Results of the Census of ...
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... increase of population between 1831 and 1841 was much greater , and in counties chiefly agricultural much less , than the annual excess of births over deaths , uninfluenced by other circumstances , would have effected . Thus , in ...
... increase of population between 1831 and 1841 was much greater , and in counties chiefly agricultural much less , than the annual excess of births over deaths , uninfluenced by other circumstances , would have effected . Thus , in ...
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... increased the number of its inhabitants in ten years by more than one- third , and the other by more than one - sixth ... increase was 68,375 . The number of emigrants into Birmingham , during the same period , may in the same way be ...
... increased the number of its inhabitants in ten years by more than one- third , and the other by more than one - sixth ... increase was 68,375 . The number of emigrants into Birmingham , during the same period , may in the same way be ...
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... ber of persons of every description who were able to claim and were compelled to accept that relief , had increased , in December , 1841 , to nearly seven - D ፡፡ thousand , one - twelfth at least of the whole IN MANUFACTURING TOWNS . 33.
... ber of persons of every description who were able to claim and were compelled to accept that relief , had increased , in December , 1841 , to nearly seven - D ፡፡ thousand , one - twelfth at least of the whole IN MANUFACTURING TOWNS . 33.
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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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