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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... English square miles . The space actually under cultivation was found by M. Estève , according to Colonel Jacotin , to be 5,469.8688 geographical square miles ; but the latter gentleman calculates that in ancient times 2,735.0784 more ...
... English square miles . The space actually under cultivation was found by M. Estève , according to Colonel Jacotin , to be 5,469.8688 geographical square miles ; but the latter gentleman calculates that in ancient times 2,735.0784 more ...
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... English ances- tors during the period of Saxon supremacy , and in the centuries imme- diately succeeding the Norman conquest . In the former period two- thirds of the people are said to have been either slaves , or in a state of bondage ...
... English ances- tors during the period of Saxon supremacy , and in the centuries imme- diately succeeding the Norman conquest . In the former period two- thirds of the people are said to have been either slaves , or in a state of bondage ...
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... English proprietors in the fourteenth century are found complaining to Parliament of the whole- sale absconding of villeins , and above all of the support afforded to these fugitives by the tribunals and the towns . It was almost ...
... English proprietors in the fourteenth century are found complaining to Parliament of the whole- sale absconding of villeins , and above all of the support afforded to these fugitives by the tribunals and the towns . It was almost ...
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... English cities were incorporated during the progress of the twelfth century . In the records of the thirteenth century we find evidences of the substitution of money - rents for per- sonal services . This is the case with the landed ...
... English cities were incorporated during the progress of the twelfth century . In the records of the thirteenth century we find evidences of the substitution of money - rents for per- sonal services . This is the case with the landed ...
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... English law - courts , was perhaps one of the causes which led to the wide divergence between the subsequent career of the English agricultural class and that of the same class in the several countries of continental Europe . But ...
... English law - courts , was perhaps one of the causes which led to the wide divergence between the subsequent career of the English agricultural class and that of the same class in the several countries of continental Europe . But ...
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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 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 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 22 - ... stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 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.
Página 188 - The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.
Página 413 - For fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family : 2.
Página 21 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
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 21 - Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates : at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it ; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it : lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
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.