London Labour and the London Poor: Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work, Volume 2Griffin, Bohn, 1851 |
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... workmen are Irishmen also . There were a few Jews and a few cock- neys in this well - known street a year or two back , but now this branch of the second - hand trade is really in the hands of what may be called a clan . A little ...
... workmen are Irishmen also . There were a few Jews and a few cock- neys in this well - known street a year or two back , but now this branch of the second - hand trade is really in the hands of what may be called a clan . A little ...
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... a minute or so that the visitor can see the workmen moving amid the clouds , catching up armfuls of the sorted rags and tossing them into the machine to be torn into fibry frag- ments by the whirling revolutions of its teeth . The 34.
... a minute or so that the visitor can see the workmen moving amid the clouds , catching up armfuls of the sorted rags and tossing them into the machine to be torn into fibry frag- ments by the whirling revolutions of its teeth . The 34.
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... workmen are coated with the flying powder . They wear bandages over their mouths , so as to prevent as much as possible the inhalation of the dust , and seem loath to remove the protec- tion for a moment . The rag grinders , with their ...
... workmen are coated with the flying powder . They wear bandages over their mouths , so as to prevent as much as possible the inhalation of the dust , and seem loath to remove the protec- tion for a moment . The rag grinders , with their ...
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... workmen lodge with them . I was lodging with one before I married a little while ago , and I know the system to be the same now as it was then , unless , indeed , it be al- tered for the worse . To show how disgusting these lodgings ...
... workmen lodge with them . I was lodging with one before I married a little while ago , and I know the system to be the same now as it was then , unless , indeed , it be al- tered for the worse . To show how disgusting these lodgings ...
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... workmen in the trade ) , that though in his youth he could take in the News and Examiner papers ( each he believed 9d . at that time , but was not certain ) , he could afford , and enjoyed , no read- ing when I saw him last autumn ...
... workmen in the trade ) , that though in his youth he could take in the News and Examiner papers ( each he believed 9d . at that time , but was not certain ) , he could afford , and enjoyed , no read- ing when I saw him last autumn ...
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Página 303 - I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day.
Página 129 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Página 129 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Página 303 - Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Página 62 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Página 129 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Página 335 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe, and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Página 172 - First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment.
Página 254 - While, on the one hand, industry is limited by capital, so on the other, every increase of capital gives, or is capable of giving, additional employment to industry ; and this without assignable limit.
Página 303 - ... operations, every one of which might be the occupation of a distinct class of workmen. And if there are not seventy classes of work-people in each card manufactory, it is because the division of labour is not carried so far as it might be ; because the same workman is charged with two, three, or four distinct operations. The influence of this distribution of employment is immense.