The British Quarterly Review, Volume 18Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1853 |
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Page 189
... wages , and cheap farms in any of our colonies , was not advisable , seeing that it was not likely to lessen the number of paupers at home . What the Government of Great Britain could not or would not do , has been accomplished by a ...
... wages , and cheap farms in any of our colonies , was not advisable , seeing that it was not likely to lessen the number of paupers at home . What the Government of Great Britain could not or would not do , has been accomplished by a ...
Page 190
... wages has been going forward from one end of the island to the other , which has had no parallel during the present century , and of which it is difficult to foretel what may be the end . Fifty years ago a very great advance took place ...
... wages has been going forward from one end of the island to the other , which has had no parallel during the present century , and of which it is difficult to foretel what may be the end . Fifty years ago a very great advance took place ...
Page 191
... wages , which has generally been conceded , springs from a healthy state of things . In a country where wages have been brought down to the lowest point at which existence can be maintained , the rise and fall of the price of bread is ...
... wages , which has generally been conceded , springs from a healthy state of things . In a country where wages have been brought down to the lowest point at which existence can be maintained , the rise and fall of the price of bread is ...
Page 192
... wages paid to agricultural labourers in England for very hard work , and the liberal rate at which the easiest kind of out - door labour -that of tending sheep - is paid in Australia , it is difficult to account for this reluctance to ...
... wages paid to agricultural labourers in England for very hard work , and the liberal rate at which the easiest kind of out - door labour -that of tending sheep - is paid in Australia , it is difficult to account for this reluctance to ...
Page 193
... wages , and who can afford to live well , is both able and willing to work at a corresponding rate . All our best practical agricul- turists are aware of this . They know that a labourer who is paid 15s . or 18s . a week , is cheaper ...
... wages , and who can afford to live well , is both able and willing to work at a corresponding rate . All our best practical agricul- turists are aware of this . They know that a labourer who is paid 15s . or 18s . a week , is cheaper ...
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