The Progress of the German Working Classes in the Last Quarter of a CenturyLongmans, Green, 1904 - 164 pàgines |
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The Progress of the German Working Classes in the Last Quarter of a Century William James Ashley Visualització completa - 1904 |
The Progress of the German Working Classes in the Last Quarter of a Century William James Ashley Visualització completa - 1904 |
The Progress of the German Working Classes in the Last Quarter of a Century William James Ashley Visualització completa - 1904 |
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according agricultural labourers Alsace amount Arbeiter lebt average Bavaria Berlin Board of Trade Britain cent century CHART Chemnitz classes comparative comparison conclusion considerably decrease depression deutsche districts Dückershoff Düsseldorf dwellings economic employers England English towns Essen evidence fact farms favour figures Fiscal Bluebook German towns Germany Glauchau Grundriss Handwörterbuch hectares higher horse-flesh hours of labour houses improvement income increase inquiry insurance system Kilos labour Landwirthschaft larger number less London lower manufacturing marks meat ment Munich nation observed occupied paid peasant percentage pfennigs poorer popu Professor proportion protection Prussia quoted recent recognised relative number rent Report rise rye bread Saxony Schmoller's Jahrbuch seen side social standard of comfort statisticians statistics Statistisches Jahrbuch tariff tion total number Toynbee Hall United Kingdom Verein für Socialpolitik W. J. ASHLEY Western Mail Westphalia whole women workman workpeople
Passatges populars
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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
Pàgina viii - This fine old world of ours is but a child Yet in the go-cart.
Pàgina 58 - probably arising from increased waves of heat received from the sun at average intervals of ten years and a fraction
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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