Knowledge is PowerBell and Daldy, 1866 - 426 pages |
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Page 68
... workmen ; and that he may turn from one employment to the other , if he so think fit , without being confined to the trade he originally learnt , or may strike into any line of employment without having regularly learnt it at all . When ...
... workmen ; and that he may turn from one employment to the other , if he so think fit , without being confined to the trade he originally learnt , or may strike into any line of employment without having regularly learnt it at all . When ...
Page 73
... workmen who left their usual abodes . Having controlled the wages of industry , the next step was for these blind lawgivers to determine how the work- men should spend their scanty pittance ; and , accordingly , in 1363 , a statute was ...
... workmen who left their usual abodes . Having controlled the wages of industry , the next step was for these blind lawgivers to determine how the work- men should spend their scanty pittance ; and , accordingly , in 1363 , a statute was ...
Page 149
... workmen of em- ployment ? No. By these means the iron trade gives bread to hundreds , where otherwise it would not have given bread to one . There are more hands employed at the iron - works than there would have been if there had been ...
... workmen of em- ployment ? No. By these means the iron trade gives bread to hundreds , where otherwise it would not have given bread to one . There are more hands employed at the iron - works than there would have been if there had been ...
Page 169
... workmen . The Egyp- tians , according to Herodotus , a Greek writer who lived two thousand five hundred years ago , hated the memory of the kings who built the pyramids . He tells us that the great pyramid occupied a hundred thousand ...
... workmen . The Egyp- tians , according to Herodotus , a Greek writer who lived two thousand five hundred years ago , hated the memory of the kings who built the pyramids . He tells us that the great pyramid occupied a hundred thousand ...
Page 178
... workmen accumulate capital to be expended in larger works , and to employ more workmen . The furniture of a house , some may say - the chairs , and tables , and bedsteads - is made nearly altogether by 178 CHAP . XIV . Economical ...
... workmen accumulate capital to be expended in larger works , and to employ more workmen . The furniture of a house , some may say - the chairs , and tables , and bedsteads - is made nearly altogether by 178 CHAP . XIV . Economical ...
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