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Page 112
... wages determinable every year - that , being found incapable of work through ignorance , they should be taught , or being found incapable of work through sickness , should be tended ; but that being found objecting to work , they should ...
... wages determinable every year - that , being found incapable of work through ignorance , they should be taught , or being found incapable of work through sickness , should be tended ; but that being found objecting to work , they should ...
Page 122
... 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 contingencies ...
... 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 contingencies ...
Page 186
... wages . " Nay , " says the economist , " if you raise his wages , he will either people down to the same point of misery at which you found him , or drink your wages away . " He will . I know it . Who gave him this will ? Suppose it ...
... wages . " Nay , " says the economist , " if you raise his wages , he will either people down to the same point of misery at which you found him , or drink your wages away . " He will . I know it . Who gave him this will ? Suppose it ...
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