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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... live by labour , or a redundancy of the labouring class above the number of persons that the fund applied to the remuneration of labour can main- tain in comfort . Of all the evils by which a nation can be afflicted , this is perhaps ...
... live by labour , or a redundancy of the labouring class above the number of persons that the fund applied to the remuneration of labour can main- tain in comfort . Of all the evils by which a nation can be afflicted , this is perhaps ...
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... live in , and Northumberland , he says , justifies the assertion . The cottages there generally contain only one room , about 17 feet long by 15 broad . The walls are of rubble , or stones embedded in mud ; the floor is also mud ; and ...
... live in , and Northumberland , he says , justifies the assertion . The cottages there generally contain only one room , about 17 feet long by 15 broad . The walls are of rubble , or stones embedded in mud ; the floor is also mud ; and ...
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... heaps of filth that accumulate beside the doors and windows . But though these wretched dens are doubtless as good as the Dorsetshire labourer can afford to rent , he could not choose but live in them , even if 22 CONDITION OF.
... heaps of filth that accumulate beside the doors and windows . But though these wretched dens are doubtless as good as the Dorsetshire labourer can afford to rent , he could not choose but live in them , even if 22 CONDITION OF.
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William Thomas Thornton. could not choose but live in them , even if his means were greater , for the cottages in his neighbourhood are mostly of this description . As he must live near the farm on which he works , he must content ...
William Thomas Thornton. could not choose but live in them , even if his means were greater , for the cottages in his neighbourhood are mostly of this description . As he must live near the farm on which he works , he must content ...
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... live upon it . " A furniture broker , who was also examined by the commissioners , said , " People now bring articles of such a mean descrip- tion , as they would never have thought of bringing for sale before . They offer me knives and ...
... live upon it . " A furniture broker , who was also examined by the commissioners , said , " People now bring articles of such a mean descrip- tion , as they would never have thought of bringing for sale before . They offer me knives and ...
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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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