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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... supposed Tendency to create an 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 ...
... supposed Tendency to create an 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 ...
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... supposed that competition would render the price of labour everywhere the same , and that the only differences in the rate of wages would arise from the superior hardship or delicacy of par- ticular occupations . In reality , however ...
... supposed that competition would render the price of labour everywhere the same , and that the only differences in the rate of wages would arise from the superior hardship or delicacy of par- ticular occupations . In reality , however ...
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... supposed that the earnings of a cottager's wife throughout the year do not much exceed 50 shillings . A man and his wife may therefore have 9s . a week , or 231. 8s . a year , to provide for three and a quarter persons on an average ...
... supposed that the earnings of a cottager's wife throughout the year do not much exceed 50 shillings . A man and his wife may therefore have 9s . a week , or 231. 8s . a year , to provide for three and a quarter persons on an average ...
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... supposed that the average num- ber of persons for whom an agricultural labourer has to provide is less than one and a quarter , or that each person's share of the daily eightpenny- worth of food is proportionably greater . Marriages ...
... supposed that the average num- ber of persons for whom an agricultural labourer has to provide is less than one and a quarter , or that each person's share of the daily eightpenny- worth of food is proportionably greater . Marriages ...
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... supposed . Since the passing of this law the rate has not fallen , but remains at the old amount of 10s . or 12s . a - week , thus showing that previously , when so many of the poor were maintained in idleness , the funds for profitably ...
... supposed . Since the passing of this law the rate has not fallen , but remains at the old amount of 10s . or 12s . a - week , thus showing that previously , when so many of the poor were maintained in idleness , the funds for profitably ...
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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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