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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... manufacture themselves . These " statesmen , " or " lairds , " as they are called , do not aspire to luxury ; but all their wishes are amply satisfied , and few people enjoy more of hum- ble happiness . Their sons , if not required at ...
... manufacture themselves . These " statesmen , " or " lairds , " as they are called , do not aspire to luxury ; but all their wishes are amply satisfied , and few people enjoy more of hum- ble happiness . Their sons , if not required at ...
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... manufactures — those of pillow lace and straw plat , which , twenty or thirty years ago , enabled the wives and daughters of cottagers to earn as much as their husbands and brothers . These manufactures have since fallen into decay ...
... manufactures — those of pillow lace and straw plat , which , twenty or thirty years ago , enabled the wives and daughters of cottagers to earn as much as their husbands and brothers . These manufactures have since fallen into decay ...
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... manufactures has caused the latter to be removed almost entirely from the country to towns , where the number of workpeople required in a large establishment is most easily procurable . One or two decaying manufactures still linger in ...
... manufactures has caused the latter to be removed almost entirely from the country to towns , where the number of workpeople required in a large establishment is most easily procurable . One or two decaying manufactures still linger in ...
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... manufactures or numerous towns , the 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 ...
... manufactures or numerous towns , the 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 ...
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... manufacture , and , five years before the Assistant Commissioners ' visit , had been in a very flourishing condition . The weekly income of the family of a labourer of the lowest class was then seldom less than one pound , and not ...
... manufacture , and , five years before the Assistant Commissioners ' visit , had been in a very flourishing condition . The weekly income of the family of a labourer of the lowest class was then seldom less than one pound , and not ...
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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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