 | James Malcolm (land surveyor.) - Agricultural systems - 1805 - 494 pages
...wages of labour depends every where upon the contract usually made between the master and the servant, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen...much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour.... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...usually are, when the labourer is one person, and the owner of the stock which employs him another. What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere...much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour.... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...usually are, when the labourer is one person, and the owner of the stock which employs him another. What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere...those two parties, whose interests are by no means the .«ame. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...and the owner of the stock which employs him another. What arc the common wages of labour, de! pends everywhere upon the contract usually made between...much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in urder to raise, the latter ill ur. der to lower, the wages of... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 452 pages
...reasonableness or equity that determines the conditions of the bargain for wages. The workmen endeavour to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible ; but it is the relation of the supply to the demand subsisting at the time that determines each party... | |
 | Agriculture - 1853 - 606 pages
...parties to whom belong the profits of stock and the wages of labour, but the interests of these parties are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, and the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - France - 1861 - 646 pages
...commend the former as more favourable to industry." Wealth of Xatiant, book i. chap. viii. p. 35. " " The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour."... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1861 - 606 pages
...the former as more favourable to industry." Wealth of Nations, book I, chap. VIII, p. 35. •- 74) „The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise , the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour."... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - France - 1864 - 660 pages
...the former as more favourable to industry." •Г..)///, of Nation», book i. chap. viii. p. 35. '' " The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, ns i.'n'. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the lütter in w*0cr to lower, the... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 576 pages
...labourer is one person and the owner of the stock which employs him another.8 What are the common_wages of labour depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests arc by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little as possiblcA,... | |
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What are the common wages of labour depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed... 
