Eight Chapters on the History of Work and Wages: Being a Reprint of Chapters VIII., XII., XIV., XV., XVII., XVIII., XIX., XX., of "Six Centuries of Work and Wages."W.S. Sonnenschein, 1885 - 206 strani |
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Eight Chapters on the History of Work and Wages James Edwin Thorold Rogers Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1902 |
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Stran 80 - Above all things, what is now characteristic of human life, that one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives, a very moderate statement of the fact, was not true of the early ages of English progress.
Stran 99 - To remove a man who has committed no misdemeanour from the parish where he chooses to reside, is an evident violation of natural liberty and justice. The common people of England, however, so jealous of their liberty, but like the common people of most other countries never rightly understanding wherein it consists, have now for more than a century together suffered themselves to be exposed to this oppression without a remedy.
Stran 91 - When the man who is clothed in purple and fine linen and fares sumptuously every day...
Stran 156 - But a more striking fact is that, from the middle of the sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth...
Stran 66 - For more than two centuries and a half, the English law, and those who administered the law, were engaged in grinding the English workman down to the lowest pittance, in stamping out every expression or act which indicated any organized discontent, and in multiplying penalties upon him when he thought of his natural rights.
Stran 141 - Thousands of homes were starved in order to find the means for the great war, the cost of which was really supported by the labour of those who toiled on and earned the wealth which was lavished freely, and at good interest for the lenders, by the government. The enormous taxation and the gigantic loans came from the store of...
Stran 27 - I have stated more than once that the fifteenth century and the first quarter of the sixteenth were the golden age of the English labourer, if we are to interpret the wages which he earned by the cost of the necessaries of life. At no time were wages, relatively speaking, so high, and at no time was food so cheap.
Stran 90 - ... lowest possible wages on which life may be sustained, by an Act of Parliament, interpreted and enforced by an ubiquitous body of magistrates, whose interest it was to screw the pittance down to the lowest conceivable margin, and to inform the stinted recipient that when he had starved on that during the days of his strength, others must work to maintain him in sickness or old age.
Stran 161 - The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the labouring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their Starving condition that they are going fast backwards.
Stran 156 - Latterly, almost within our own memory «nd knowledge, it has experienced a slow and partial improvement, the causes of which are to be found in the liberation of industry from protective laws, in the adoption of certain principles which restrained employment in some directions, and most of all in the concession to labourers of the right so long denied, of forming labour partnerships.