 We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere...  Workmen and Wages at Home and Abroad - Page 13by James Ward - 1868 - 314 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1833 - 844 pages
...Smith, lor saying (tfeallk of Nationt, chapter 8,) " masters are always and " every where iu a suit of tacit, but constant " and uniform combination, not to raise the " wages of labour above their actual rate." ' The demand for tfaose who live by wages, ' it i> evident, cauuot... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere *in a sort of tacit, but...constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. To violate this combination is everywhere a most unpopular action,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1809 - 1484 pages
...rarelv combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the suliject. Masters are always and every where in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. To violate this combination is everywhere a most unpopular action,... | |
 | History - 1809 - 1080 pages
...masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and every where in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to rniic the wages ot labour above their actual rate. To violate this combination is everywhere a most... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...this account, that masters rarely cbmbitte", i^ fW ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and 'everywhere in a sort of tacit;' but' constant and Uniform-,' combination, not to rais£ the 'wages of labour above tfateir actual 'rate. To violate 'this combination is everywhere... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...extremely profitable to the nation.'. world world as of the subject. Masters are always and every where in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. To violate this combination is every where a most unpopular action,... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Christian socialism - 1851 - 122 pages
...to pay him more than he asks." — North British Review, vol. xiv., p.4.12,.,.NOTE 13. — " Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. To violate this combination is everywhere a most unpopular action,... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Industrial relations - 1852 - 142 pages
...rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere as a sort of tacit but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. To violate this combination is everywhere a most unpopular action,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but...constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. To violate this combination is everywhere n most unpopular action,... | |
 | Amalgamated society of carpenters and joiners - 1861 - 840 pages
...indefinite, very variable, but perfectly real and immensely powerful. As Adam Smith tells us, ''Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate." Since very powerful combinations exist, and must exist, among employers,... | |
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