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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... profit to be in all cases even 50 per cent . , though I am convinced it is often much less ) gives to each street- trader an annual income of 201. 13s . 4d . , or within a fraction of 8s . a week , all the year round . And when we coine ...
... profit to be in all cases even 50 per cent . , though I am convinced it is often much less ) gives to each street- trader an annual income of 201. 13s . 4d . , or within a fraction of 8s . a week , all the year round . And when we coine ...
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... profit of the less expert , the old people , and the children , may be said to be 38. 6d . These incomes , however , are the average of the gross yearly profits rather than the regular weekly gains ; the consequence is , that though ...
... profit of the less expert , the old people , and the children , may be said to be 38. 6d . These incomes , however , are the average of the gross yearly profits rather than the regular weekly gains ; the consequence is , that though ...
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... profit , as well as to the in- crease in the number of street - traders ; but when questioned as to the extent of such increase , their answers are of the vaguest possible kind . Arrang- ing the street - people , however , as we have ...
... profit , as well as to the in- crease in the number of street - traders ; but when questioned as to the extent of such increase , their answers are of the vaguest possible kind . Arrang- ing the street - people , however , as we have ...
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... profit in disposing of the flesh to the cats - meat man ; but computing it merely at 21. we have the subjoined receipts : - The flesh ( averaging 2 cwt . , sold at 24d . per lb .. The skin The hoofs . • The shoes and nails The bones The ...
... profit in disposing of the flesh to the cats - meat man ; but computing it merely at 21. we have the subjoined receipts : - The flesh ( averaging 2 cwt . , sold at 24d . per lb .. The skin The hoofs . • The shoes and nails The bones The ...
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... profit to the " fence , " whose payment to the thief was little more than the price of old metal at the foundry . I under- stand , however , that this course is not now pur- sued , nor is it likely that it ever was pursued to any extent ...
... profit to the " fence , " whose payment to the thief was little more than the price of old metal at the foundry . I under- stand , however , that this course is not now pur- sued , nor is it likely that it ever was pursued to any extent ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 172 - First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment.
Page 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.
Page 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.