Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire: In a Series of Letters to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin |
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... and the employed de- sirable , if not necessary . My inquiries were chiefly directed to ascertaining whether the pre- sent dispute respecting wages created any ne- cessity for such interference , and I have added two.
... and the employed de- sirable , if not necessary . My inquiries were chiefly directed to ascertaining whether the pre- sent dispute respecting wages created any ne- cessity for such interference , and I have added two.
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... wages being reduced . Some of them no doubt will say , compel the employers to pay still the same amount of wages , because in all ages of the world that philanthropy has been fashion- able which consists in being exceedingly generous ...
... wages being reduced . Some of them no doubt will say , compel the employers to pay still the same amount of wages , because in all ages of the world that philanthropy has been fashion- able which consists in being exceedingly generous ...
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... wages : if at this crisis I found such abundant elements of comfort and enjoyment , what would its condition have been if nothing had inter- fered to check its advancing prosperity ?, LETTER III . Bolton , -- , 1842 . BOLTON 36 [ LET ...
... wages : if at this crisis I found such abundant elements of comfort and enjoyment , what would its condition have been if nothing had inter- fered to check its advancing prosperity ?, LETTER III . Bolton , -- , 1842 . BOLTON 36 [ LET ...
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... wages in any given occu- pation will be measured by the feeblest and not by the strongest of the workmen engaged in it . If , as is the case in many trades , it should so happen that the same task can be performed both by a man and a ...
... wages in any given occu- pation will be measured by the feeblest and not by the strongest of the workmen engaged in it . If , as is the case in many trades , it should so happen that the same task can be performed both by a man and a ...
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... wages which was very barely sufficient to keep body and soul together . You will be amused with an incident which oc- curred at this stage of the conversation . Mr. Eccroyd , with the usual English love for contraction , called the ...
... wages which was very barely sufficient to keep body and soul together . You will be amused with an incident which oc- curred at this stage of the conversation . Mr. Eccroyd , with the usual English love for contraction , called the ...
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