The History of the Poor: Their Rights, Duties, and the Laws Respecting Them. In a Series of Letters, Volume 2J. Deighton, 1794 - Poor |
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... wages , demands proof before it ought to be reafoned from as a principle ; and at present it stands a mere gratis difium , as advanced by him . Smith goes more minutely into the question , which requires a decided judgment before ...
... wages , demands proof before it ought to be reafoned from as a principle ; and at present it stands a mere gratis difium , as advanced by him . Smith goes more minutely into the question , which requires a decided judgment before ...
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... wages must be at leaft fufficient to maintain him ; they muft even , upon most occafions , be fomething more , otherwise it would be impoffible for him to bring up a family , and the race of fuch workmen would not laft beyond the firft ...
... wages must be at leaft fufficient to maintain him ; they muft even , upon most occafions , be fomething more , otherwise it would be impoffible for him to bring up a family , and the race of fuch workmen would not laft beyond the firft ...
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... wages of la- bour feem to be evidently more than what is precifely neceffary to bring up a family . B. I. c . 8 . " Lord Chief Juftice Hale , who wrote in the time of Charles the Second , computes the necessary expence of a labourer's ...
... wages of la- bour feem to be evidently more than what is precifely neceffary to bring up a family . B. I. c . 8 . " Lord Chief Juftice Hale , who wrote in the time of Charles the Second , computes the necessary expence of a labourer's ...
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... wages of labour , are admirably elucidated in chapter the 8th , book the ift , of this excellent work . " Since the time of Henry the Eighth , the wealth and revenue of the country have been continually advancing ; and in the course of ...
... wages of labour , are admirably elucidated in chapter the 8th , book the ift , of this excellent work . " Since the time of Henry the Eighth , the wealth and revenue of the country have been continually advancing ; and in the course of ...
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... wages of country labour approach nearer to thofe of manufac- turing labour , than they are faid to have done in the last century , or in the beginning of the prefent . B. 1. c . 10 . " The very unequal price of labour which we ...
... wages of country labour approach nearer to thofe of manufac- turing labour , than they are faid to have done in the last century , or in the beginning of the prefent . B. 1. c . 10 . " The very unequal price of labour which we ...
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Page 142 - That the handicraftsmen in each hundred be bound to take every other of their respective apprentices from amongst the boys in some one of the schools in the said hundred without any money, which boys they may so take at what age they please, to be bound to them till the age of twenty-three years, that so the length of time may more than make amends for the usual sums that are given to handicraftsmen with such apprentices. That those also in the hundred who keep in their hands land of their own to...
Page 12 - Since the time of Henry VIII the wealth and revenue of the country have been continually advancing, and, in the course of their progress, their pace seems rather to have been gradually accelerated than retarded.
Page 115 - The real recompence of labour, the real quantity of the necessaries and conveniences of life which it can procure to the labourer, has, during the course of the present century, increased perhaps in a still greater proportion than its money price.
Page 17 - It regulates the money price of labour, which must always be such as to enable the labourer to purchase a quantity of corn sufficient to maintain him and his family either in the liberal, moderate, or scanty manner in which the advancing, stationary, or declining circumstances of the society oblige his employers to maintain him.
Page 16 - ... the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock ; and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people, — to those who live by rent, to those who live by wages, and to those who live by profit. These are the three great original and constituent orders of every...
Page 144 - Peace as is aforesaid, for setting to work the Children of all such whose Parents shall not by the said Churchwardens and Overseers, or the greater Part of them, be thought able to keep and maintain their Children...
Page 139 - ... them. We do not suppose that children of three years old will be able at that age to get their livelihoods at the working school, but we are sure that what is necessary for their relief will more effectually have that use if it be distributed to them in bread at that school than if it be given to their fathers in money. What they have at home from their parents is seldom more than bread and water, and that, many of them, very scantily too. If therefore care be taken that they have...
Page 12 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour is a plain violation of this most sacred...
Page 194 - ... and workmen, which for the following of their work by the day or by the great, in any City, town corporate, market town or village...
Page 138 - ... management of it: for a great number of children giving a poor man a title to an allowance from the parish, this allowance is given once a week, or once a month, to the father in money...