Labor in Europe and America: A Special Report on the Rates of Wages, the Cost of Subsistence, and the Condition of the Working Classes in Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium and Other Countries of Europe, Also in the United States and British AmericaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1875 - 864 páginas |
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... live in the country cultivating their land with their own hands ; while consuls and dictators were often taken from the plow . " In those happy days , " says Pliny , " the earth , glorious in seeing herself cultivated by the hands of ...
... live in the country cultivating their land with their own hands ; while consuls and dictators were often taken from the plow . " In those happy days , " says Pliny , " the earth , glorious in seeing herself cultivated by the hands of ...
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... lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar and brick and in all manner of service in the field , " ( Exodus i , 14 , ) they sighed for the days when they " sat by the flesh - pots and did eat bread to the full . " ( Exodus xvi , 3. ) But ...
... lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar and brick and in all manner of service in the field , " ( Exodus i , 14 , ) they sighed for the days when they " sat by the flesh - pots and did eat bread to the full . " ( Exodus xvi , 3. ) But ...
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... lives of citizens generally , and punish all who had no regular occupation to support them ; and if a son had not been taught some art or profession by his father the laws of Solon relieved him from the obligation of supporting that ...
... lives of citizens generally , and punish all who had no regular occupation to support them ; and if a son had not been taught some art or profession by his father the laws of Solon relieved him from the obligation of supporting that ...
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... live upon 440 drachmas a year , they must have passed a very wretched existence . " Elsewhere he says that " in the flourishing times of the state one person could live bat moderately upon . 2 or even 3 oboli a day ; " so that a ...
... live upon 440 drachmas a year , they must have passed a very wretched existence . " Elsewhere he says that " in the flourishing times of the state one person could live bat moderately upon . 2 or even 3 oboli a day ; " so that a ...
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... live it was of course necessary that they should eat , and therefore a portion of the produce was aban- doned to them - according to Tyrtæos , the half , a division which must have borne very hard upon them , since their numbers were ...
... live it was of course necessary that they should eat , and therefore a portion of the produce was aban- doned to them - according to Tyrtæos , the half , a division which must have borne very hard upon them , since their numbers were ...
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Página 18 - Zeboim toward the wilderness. (Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Página 189 - ... the term trade union, except the proviso qualifying such definition, is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof be it enacted as follows : the term trade union means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, for regulating the relations between workmen and masters, or between workmen and workmen, or between masters and masters, or for imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of any trade or business...
Página 22 - When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Página 20 - Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shall appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
Página 19 - And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Página 191 - By the statute in question it is provided that "no employee shall be required, or permitted, to work in a biscuit, bread, or cake bakery, or confectionery establishment, more than sixty hours in any one week, or more than ten hours in any one day...
Página 190 - ... near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working'.
Página 22 - Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Página 139 - No newspaper pleaded their cause. It was in rude rhyme that their love and hatred, their exultation and their distress found utterance. A great part of their history is to be learned only from their ballads. One of the most remarkable of the popular lays...
Página 22 - When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.