Unto This LastUnto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin, critical of the 18th and 19th century capitalist economists. When first published as four magazine articles in 1860 they were, in the words of Ruskin himself, "very violently criticized" and the publisher was forced to halt publication. But Ruskin persevered and released the four articles in this book form in 1862. Gandhi read Unto This Last in 1904 and it had a huge impact on his social and economic philosophy, with Gandhi making an immediate decision to live according to Ruskin's teachings. |
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... rate of wages he gives. He never allows them to be idle; feeds them as poorly and lodges them as ill as they will endure, and in all things pushes his requirements to the exact point beyond which he cannot go without forcing the servant ...
... rate of wages he gives. He never allows them to be idle; feeds them as poorly and lodges them as ill as they will endure, and in all things pushes his requirements to the exact point beyond which he cannot go without forcing the servant ...
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... rate of wages for domestic labour. If the servant can get a better place, he is free to take one, and the master can only tell what is the real market value of his labour, by requiring as much as he will give. This is the politico ...
... rate of wages for domestic labour. If the servant can get a better place, he is free to take one, and the master can only tell what is the real market value of his labour, by requiring as much as he will give. This is the politico ...
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... rate of wages, for a definite period; but a workman at a rate of wages variable according to the demand for labour, and with the risk of being at any time thrown out of his situation by chances of trade. Now, as, under these ...
... rate of wages, for a definite period; but a workman at a rate of wages variable according to the demand for labour, and with the risk of being at any time thrown out of his situation by chances of trade. Now, as, under these ...
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John Ruskin. The first — How far the rate of wages may be so regulated as not to vary with the demand for labour. The second — How far it is possible that bodies of workmen may be engaged and maintained at such fixed rate of wages ...
John Ruskin. The first — How far the rate of wages may be so regulated as not to vary with the demand for labour. The second — How far it is possible that bodies of workmen may be engaged and maintained at such fixed rate of wages ...
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... rate, but the good workman employed, and the bad workman unemployed. The false, unnatural, and destructive system is ... wages, then, being the first object toward which we have to discover the directest available road; the second is, as ...
... rate, but the good workman employed, and the bad workman unemployed. The false, unnatural, and destructive system is ... wages, then, being the first object toward which we have to discover the directest available road; the second is, as ...
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