The Progress of the German Working Classes in the Last Quarter of a Century

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Longmans, Green, 1904 - 164 páginas

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Página 67 - established that no other existing state of agricultural economy has so beneficial an effect on the industry, the intelligence, the frugality and prudence of the
Página 14 - Those who have observed the mule-spinner in Oldham, in the midst of the whirling of 2,500 spindles, or the female worker in Burnley environed by four or six shuttles, working at the speed of 200 picks per minute, know what a higher degree of mental application is here demanded.
Página 1 - is but one of many factors entering into its general prosperity. Its influence, good or bad, may be strengthened or may be counteracted by other causes; while it is exceedingly difficult, generally impossible, to trace its separate effect.
Página x - Slowly and by little steps rises the well-being of the general body of the people; and no small number of those classes of the population which thirty years ago obtained a bare subsistence, have now made their way into a middle class and enjoy a fairly adequate
Página 11 - or rollers, whose counterparts practically do not exist in Germany, the engineer there taking the full control, oversight and responsibility of his department. Apart from these men, there is not the difference in the wages paid as between Germany and this country that is
Página 2 - It requires but little reflection to understand why it is that a direct comparison, exceedingly difficult and insecure as it must be in the case of any two countries, is absolutely valueless as applied to Germany and Great Britain. In the
Página viii - This fine old world of ours is but a child Yet in the go-cart.
Página 58 - probably arising from increased waves of heat received from the sun at average intervals of ten years and a fraction
Página 11 - some few men who get higher wages than any of the men in our works ; but over the whole of the men we pay higher wages than you pay. It is an absolute fact that the wages in these works, in all departments, are higher, and the condition of the men is better than in England.
Página 17 - ie, there is a much narrower fringe of people totally unprovided for. (2) A considerable part (one-third) of the cost is compulsorily borne by the employers. (3) Thirteen out of sixteen wageearning workpeople have a right to a small pension in case of permanent incapacity, or on reaching the age of seventy—a far larger number than the few who in England benefit by friendly society pensions. The

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