An Essay Upon the Union of Agriculture and Manufactures, and Upon the Organization of Industry

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 - 114 Seiten
 

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Seite 13 - From this law, clearly understood, it is easy to trace the circumstances which, in any country, determine the condition of the great body of the people. If that condition is easy and comfortable, all that is necessary to keep it so is to make capital increase as fast as population; or on the other hand, to prevent population from increasing faster than capital. If that condition is not easy and comfortable, it can only be made so by one of two methods; either by quickening the rate at which capital...
Seite 19 - Thieving and prostitution constitute the main sources of the revenue of this population. No pains seem to be taken to purge this Augean pandemonium; this nucleus of crime, filth, and. pestilence, existing in the centre of the second city of the empire. These wynds constitute the St. Giles of Glasgow; but I owe an apology to the metropolitan pandemonium for the comparison. A very extensive inspection of the lowest districts of other places, both here and on the Continent, never presented anything...
Seite 13 - If it were the natural tendency of capital to increase faster than population, there would be no difficulty in preserving a prosperous condition of the people. If, on the other hand, it were the natural tendency of population to increase faster than capital, the difficulty would be very great. There would be a perpetual tendency in wages to fall. The progressive fall of wages would produce a greater and a greater degree of poverty among the people, attended with its inevitable consequences, misery...
Seite 18 - Revolting as was the outward appearance of these places, I was little prepared for the filth and destitution within. In some of these...
Seite 112 - No Working World, any more than a Fighting World, can be led on without a noble Chivalry of Work, and laws and fixed rules which follow out of that, — far nobler than any Chivalry of Fighting was. As an anarchic multitude on mere Supply-and-demand, it is becoming inevitable that we dwindle in horrid suicidal convulsion, and self-abrasion, frightful to the imagination, into Chactaw Workers.
Seite 14 - That population has a tendency to increase faster, than, in most places, capital has actually increased, is proved, incontestably, by the condition of the population in most parts of the globe.
Seite 19 - Their bed consisted of a layer of musty straw, intermixed with rags. There was generally little or no furniture in these places ; the sole article of comfort was a fire. Thieving and prostitution constitute the main sources of the revenue of this population. No pains seem to be taken to purge this Augean pandemonium ; this nucleus of crime, filth and pestilence, existing in the centre of the second city of the empire.
Seite 29 - And now, the world will have to pause a little, and take up that other side of the problem, and in right earnest strive for some solution of that. For it has become pressing. What is the use of your spun shirts ? They hang there by the million unsaleable ; and here, by the million, are diligent bare backs that can get no hold of them. Shirts are useful for covering human backs ; useless otherwise, an unbearable mockery otherwise. You have fallen terribly behind with that side of the problem...
Seite 52 - ... insular situation, and free constitution, have produced the immense results, over which, in one view, we have reason to exult, and in another, to lament. It is utterly impossible that this unparalleled growth of our manufacturing industry can co-exist with the f,rm foundation of public prosperity.
Seite 40 - A very good hand-weaver, twenty-five or thirty years of age, will weave two pieces of 9-8ths shirting a week. " ' In 1823, a steam-loom weaver, about fifteen years of age, attending two looms, could weave seven similar pieces in a week. " ' In 1826, a steam-loom weaver, about fifteen years of age, attending two looms, could weave twelve similar pieces in a week ; some could weave fifteen, pieces.

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