The Progress of the German Working Classes in the Last Quarter of a CenturyLongmans, Green, 1904 - 164 páginas |
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The Progress of the German Working Classes in the Last Quarter of a Century William James Ashley Visualização integral - 1904 |
The Progress of the German Working Classes in the Last Quarter of a Century William James Ashley Visualização integral - 1904 |
The Progress of the German Working Classes in the Last Quarter of a Century William James Ashley Visualização integral - 1904 |
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Agrarians agricultural labourers Alsace amount ANNUAL EARNINGS Arbeiter lebt average Bavaria Berlin Board of Trade Böhmert Britain cent century CHART Chemnitz classes compared comparison conclusion considerably consumption of horse-flesh decrease depression deutsche Deutsche Reich Deutschen Reich districts Dückershoff Düsseldorf duties dwellings economic economists employers England English towns Essen evidence fact farms favour figures Fiscal Bluebook German towns Germany Grundriss Handwörterbuch HEAD OF POPULATION hectares hours of labour houses improvement income increase industrial inquiry insurance system Kilos kingdom of Saxony labour Landwirthschaft larger number less manufactures marks meat ment movement Munich nation occupied peasants percentages pfennigs popu progress proportion protection Prussia quoted recent recognised relative number rent Report rise Saxony Schmoller's Jahrbuch seen side statisticians statistics Statistisches Jahrbuch Störungen tariff tion total number United Kingdom Verein für Socialpolitik W. J. ASHLEY wages Westphalia whole workman workpeople
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Página ii - Crown 8vo., is. 6rf. net. THE ADJUSTMENT OF WAGES : a Study on the Coal and Iron Industries of Great Britain and the United States. With 4 Maps. 8vo., 12s. 6d. net. BRITISH INDUSTRIES : a Series of General Reviews for Business Men and Students.
Página 67 - ... to the most effective use of the powers of the soil ; that no other existing state of agricultural economy has so beneficial an effect on the industry, the intelligence, the frugality, and prudence of the population, nor tends on the whole so much to discourage an improvident increase of their numbers ; and that no existing state, therefore, is on the whole so favourable, both to their moral and their physical welfare.
Página 69 - I have brought up a family and nearly worked them to death. They said, "Father, we are not going to stop here and be worked to death for nothing", so they went off into shops and left me and the old woman to struggle along.
Página 1 - Cobden," pp. 162, 163, 210. the revival of 1843-44, to help their case. But the effect of tariffs cannot be traced by any such rough-and-ready method. The tariff system of a country 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. Least of all can its influence be traced in those variations of outward prosperity...
Página ix - I am well aware that the condition of industrial wage-earners has, on the whole, become better in the course of recent decades, and that with some industries and classes of workmen the improvement has been quite considerable...
Página vii - those of us who, in the present crisis of our national fortunes, are such ardent Imperialists that we are ready to risk even the real dangers of tariffs, and to do this just because we are Social...
Página 11 - ... 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...
Página 12 - Middlesborough, and was therefore fitted to compare, discoursed the delegates thus : — " Undoubtedly our men are better off than the men in England. We pay, generally speaking, higher wages. You have some few men who get higher wages than any men in our works ; but over the whole of the men we get higher wages than you pay. That is an absolute fact.
Página viii - This fine old world of ours is but a child Yet in the go-cart. Patience ! Give it time To learn its limbs : there is a hand that guides.
Página 2 - Nor is it less obvious that protection to an industry, everything else remaining the same, would expand that industry and especially p. 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 face of this and many similar passages it is interesting to note that the writer of leaflet No. 88 mentions Professor Ashley's...