| James Malcolm (land surveyor.) - 1805 - 494 Seiten
...wages of labour depends every where upon the contract usually made between the master and the servant, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen...raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour. In almost every part of Great Britain there is a distinction even in the lowest species of... | |
| Adam Smith - 1809 - 372 Seiten
...employs him another. What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are...raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour. It is. not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 452 Seiten
...employs him another. What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the .«ame. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are... | |
| Adam Smith - 1835 - 486 Seiten
...employs him another*. What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are...masters to give as little as possible. The former are * The statement in the text, that in every part of Europe twenty workmen live by wages for one that... | |
| Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 Seiten
...employs him another. What arc the common wages of labour, de! pends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are...as possible. The former are disposed to combine in urder to raise, the latter ill ur. der to lower, the wages of labour. It is not, however, difficult... | |
| Joseph Salway Eisdell - 1839 - 452 Seiten
...reasonableness or equity that determines the conditions of the bargain for wages. The workmen endeavour to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible ; but it is the relation of the supply to the demand subsisting at the time that determines each party... | |
| William Dodd - 1847 - 190 Seiten
...same; the workman desires to get as much, and the master to give as little as possible. The former is disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the wages of labor." In no country has this truth been exemplified in a more striking manner, than in England. Trades Unions... | |
| William Dodd - 1848 - 180 Seiten
...same; the workman desires to get as much, and the master to give as little as possible. The former is disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the wages of labor." In no country has this truth been exemplified in a more striking manner, than in England. Trades Unions... | |
| 1853 - 606 Seiten
...parties to whom belong the profits of stock and the wages of labour, but the interests of these parties are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, and the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise,... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1861 - 606 Seiten
...the former as more favourable to industry." Wealth of Nations, book I, chap. VIII, p. 35. •- 74) „The workmen desire to get as much, the masters...raise , the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour." Wealth of Nations, b. I, c. VIII, p. 27. 75) „It seems absurd at first sight, that we should... | |
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