The Economic Position of the British LabourerMacmillan and Company, 1865 - 256 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 30 - Leaving Sauve, I was much struck with a large tract of land seemingly nothing but huge rocks, yet most of it enclosed and planted with the most industrious attention. Every man has an olive, a mulberry, an almond, or a peach-tree, and vines scattered
Σελίδα 38 - a good interest. Then his ambition is to become a petty proprietor, and this class of persons is better off than any in Denmark. Indeed, I know of no people in any country who have more easily within their reach all that is really necessary for life than this class, which is very large in comparison with that of labourers.
Σελίδα 31 - has an improvement on the dunes, which he very obligingly showed me. Between the town and that place is a great number of neat little houses, built each with its garden, and one or two fields enclosed, of most wretched blowing
Σελίδα 38 - Mr Jones says, that the peasant proprietors are " exactly in the condition, in which the animal disposition to increase their numbers is checked by the fewest of those balancing motives and desires, which regulate the increase of superior ranks, or more civilized people.
Σελίδα 188 - says, There is a soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out. If
Σελίδα 111 - farms are in the highest state of cultivation. The labourers, as at Rochdale, select from amongst their own body a committee of management, and those who are employed, receive the ordinary agricultural wages. The profits are divided according to a plan very similar to that which has been adopted at Rochdale.
Σελίδα 225 - man. This world was made for the occupation of the human race, and it never could be intended that fertile soils should grow nothing but rank and useless vegetation; it never could be intended, that rivers which might stimulate the production of untold wealth should
Σελίδα 178 - Each party feels what the other will do as a last resource; the operatives every year becoming more intelligent by improved education, carefully watch the price of the raw material and the price of manufactured goods, and are thus enabled to form an accurate estimate of their
Σελίδα 125 - It is therefore evident, that the aggregate wealth which is annually saved in England is divided into two portions; one portion is employed as capital to maintain our industry, and the other portion is exported to foreign countries.