| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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