Eight Chapters on the History of Work and WagesS. Sonnenschein, 1894 - 206 strani |
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... cent . , and a considerable amount of this becomes a per- manent charge on the costs of agriculture . That part which is permanent amounts to 20 per cent . on an average . The habit of cutting corn high up on the straw , and therefore ...
... cent . , and a considerable amount of this becomes a per- manent charge on the costs of agriculture . That part which is permanent amounts to 20 per cent . on an average . The habit of cutting corn high up on the straw , and therefore ...
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... cent . on the capital invested , about 2 per cent . being represented by the rents of assize and manorial receipts . This estimate has been taken from an actual balance - sheet , in a year of average , or rather more than average ...
... cent . on the capital invested , about 2 per cent . being represented by the rents of assize and manorial receipts . This estimate has been taken from an actual balance - sheet , in a year of average , or rather more than average ...
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... cent . above the average , and the crop was small , the sales being less than two - thirds of the earlier year . The profits of the dairy are about three - fifths of those in 1332 , and about half the amount of stock is sold . On the ...
... cent . above the average , and the crop was small , the sales being less than two - thirds of the earlier year . The profits of the dairy are about three - fifths of those in 1332 , and about half the amount of stock is sold . On the ...
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... cent . in the Eastern Counties , 73 in the Midland , 48 in the Southern , 37 in the Western , and 59 in the Northern . The most notable rise is that in the payment for threshing oats . But the prices paid for this service had been very ...
... cent . in the Eastern Counties , 73 in the Midland , 48 in the Southern , 37 in the Western , and 59 in the Northern . The most notable rise is that in the payment for threshing oats . But the prices paid for this service had been very ...
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... cent . , the reaping of the acre of wheat and barley rising by 51 , bigg by 44 , rye by 47 , beans , peas , and vetches by 59 , and oats by 69 per cent . But after the plague , the cultivation of bigg and rye becomes increas- ingly rare ...
... cent . , the reaping of the acre of wheat and barley rising by 51 , bigg by 44 , rye by 47 , beans , peas , and vetches by 59 , and oats by 69 per cent . But after the plague , the cultivation of bigg and rye becomes increas- ingly rare ...
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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 154 - But a more striking fact is that, from the middle of the sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth...
Stran 154 - ... improved, till in the first half of the eighteenth century, though still far below the level of the fifteenth, it achieved comparative plenty. Then it began to sink again, and the workmen experienced the direst misery during the great continental war. Latterly, almost within our own memory and 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...
Stran 173 - Now, the quality of the work in the old times of which I have written is unquestionable. It stands to this day a proof of how excellent ancient masonry was. The building, from the construction of which I have inferred so much as to work and wages, is still standing as it was left four centuries ago. I am persuaded that such perfect masonry would have been incompatible with a long hours day.
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 84 - ... use, but be devoted towards the maintenance of a military force, and that therefore no more demands should be made on the nation for subsidies and aids. Similarly when the guild lands and chantry lands were confiscated at the beginning of Edward's reign, a promise was made that the estates of these foundations should be devoted to good and proper uses, for erecting grammar schools, for the further augmentation of the universities, and the better provision for the poor and needy.
Stran 80 - It is doubtless true, that one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Stran 90 - ... had starved on that during the days of his strength, others must work to maintain him in sickness or old age. Now this was what the Statute of Apprenticeship, supplemented by the Poor Law, did in the days of Elizabeth. And if you go into the streets and alleys of our large towns, and, indeed, of many English villages, you may meet the fruit of the wickedness of Henry and the policy of Elizabeth's counsellors in the degradation and helplessness of your countrymen.
Stran 34 - Pecok were proscribed. Besides, the chapel was unfinished, and the king was 'making an annual grant for its completion. During the struggle between the rival houses, it seems to me that the people were absolutely indifferent. It was not a war of sieges but of battles, in which the combatants appear to have sought out some secluded spot, and to have fought out the combat. I have never seen or read of any injury done to neutrals, except the outrages of Margaret's northern army in the beginning of 1461,...