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" First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment. "
London Labour and the London Poor: Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings ... - Page 172
by Henry Mayhew - 1851
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...them ; and fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them. First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or...honourableness or dishonourableness, of the employment. Thus in most places, take the year round, a journeyman tailor earns less than a journeyman weaver....
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Political Economy: An Inquiry Into the Natural Grounds of Right to Vendible ...

Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...them ; and, fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them. " First, The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or...dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employments. Thus, in most places, take the year round, a journeyman tailor earns less than a journeyman...
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Political Economy: An Inquiry Into the Natural Grounds of Right to Vendible ...

Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 440 pages
...them ; and, fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them. " First, The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonour, ableness of the employments. Thus, in most places, take the year round, a journeyman tailor...
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1848 - 622 pages
...his examples are sometimes drawn from a state of facts now no longer existing. " The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or...honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment. Thus, in most places, take the year round, a journeyman tailor earns less than a journeyman weaver....
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1849 - 638 pages
...his examples are sometimes drawn from a state of facts now no longer existing. " The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or...honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment. Thus, in most places, take the year round, a journeyman tailor earns less than a journeyman weaver....
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...prompt us to relieve them. 3. INEQUALITIES IN WAGES. — ("WEALTH OF NATIONS.") The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or...honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment. Thus in most places, take the year round, a journeyman tailor earns less than a journeyman weaver....
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...prompt us to relieve them. 3. INEQUALITIES IN WAGES. — ("WEALTH OF NATIONS.") The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or...honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment. Thus in most places, take the year round, a journeyman tailor earns less than a journeyman weaver....
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London labour and the London poor, Volume 2

Henry Mayhew - 1861 - 580 pages
...high. This certainly is not due to what Adam Smith, in his chapter on the Difference of Wages, term« the " disagreeableness of the employment." " The wages...honourableness or dishonourableness, of the employment." It will be seen — when we come to treat of the nightmen — that the most offensive, and perhaps...
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London Labour and the London Poor: The Condition and Earnings of ..., Volume 2

Henry Mayhew - Charities - 1864 - 596 pages
...not due to what Adam Smith, in his chapter on the Difference of Wages, terms the " diaagreeubleness of the employment." " The wages of labour," he says,...ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableneis or dishonourableness, of the employment." It will be seen — when we come to treat...
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Sketches of Political Economy

James Stuart Laurie - Economics - 1864 - 116 pages
...is natural that the wages of labour should vary (although they do not under all circumstances do so) with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness,...honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment. Thus, a journeyman weaver should earn less than a journeyman smith. His work is cleanlier, and requires...
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