Eight Chapters on the History of Work and WagesS. Sonnenschein, 1894 - 206 strani |
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... supply a notable quantity of meal which might well be saved for flour . In Arthur Young's times , it is again clear that wheat was cut high on the stalk . During the reign of Edward II . , the practice became increas- ingly general to ...
... supply a notable quantity of meal which might well be saved for flour . In Arthur Young's times , it is again clear that wheat was cut high on the stalk . During the reign of Edward II . , the practice became increas- ingly general to ...
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... supply of hired labour for the purpose of getting in their crops . We are told that these crops were often suffered to rot in the fields for want of hands ; that cattle and sheep roamed at large over the country for lack of herdsmen ...
... supply of hired labour for the purpose of getting in their crops . We are told that these crops were often suffered to rot in the fields for want of hands ; that cattle and sheep roamed at large over the country for lack of herdsmen ...
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... supply of which the success of capitalist agriculture in the fourteenth century so largely depended , there was no corresponding rise in the price of provisions . The different kinds of grain are not appreciably dearer , beyond what is ...
... supply of which the success of capitalist agriculture in the fourteenth century so largely depended , there was no corresponding rise in the price of provisions . The different kinds of grain are not appreciably dearer , beyond what is ...
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... supply indefinite . This is the common case when there is great activity in manufactures , and it arises from the fact that business has become more brisk , that the industry is for the time capable of indefinite extension , or that a ...
... supply indefinite . This is the common case when there is great activity in manufactures , and it arises from the fact that business has become more brisk , that the industry is for the time capable of indefinite extension , or that a ...
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... supply the farm labourer with a quarter of malt . In so cheap a year as this , the peasant could provision his family for a twelvemonth with three quarters of wheat , three of malt , and two of oatmeal , by fifteen weeks of ordinary ...
... supply the farm labourer with a quarter of malt . In so cheap a year as this , the peasant could provision his family for a twelvemonth with three quarters of wheat , three of malt , and two of oatmeal , by fifteen weeks of ordinary ...
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acre advantage agricultural labourers allowances amount Arthur Young average base money better Black Death capital capitalist cent cheap classes condition constantly corn Corn Laws cost currency demand disease doubt earnings economist economy effect eighteenth century Elizabeth employed employers employment England English enhanced fact famine farm farmer fifteenth century guild half harvest House of Lancaster husbandry increase industry interest kind labour partnerships labourer's land landlord landowners latter LAURENCE GRONLUND less Lollards London machinery magistrates malt manufacture ment misery nearly necessary oatmeal opulent ordinary owner paid parish Parliament payments peasant period persons plague poor law population price of wheat produce profits purchase quarter sessions rate of wages reign remedy rent rise scarcity serf sixteenth social statute Statute of Labourers sweating sickness taxation tenant towns trade unions wages of labour wealth week whole workmen Young
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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,...