Trusts and the State: A Sketch of CompetitionG. Richards, 1901 - 318 ページ |
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Adam Smith advantage amalgamation Association British capitalist cent Chartist classes co-operation co-operative societies coal Cobden collieries combination commercial Committee common consumer Corn Law cost cotton debentures demand districts dividend economic economists effect efficient employers employment engineering England English established evils existence factory favour firms foreign Government hands important improvement increased individual industrial revolution industry interests invention iron John Stuart Mill joint-stock companies laissez-faire Lancashire legislation Limited London Lord Playfair machinery manufacturers masters ment millions monopoly moral movement municipal natural operatives organisation Owen Owenite Parliament period persons political present principle production profits purchase railway rates reform regulations result retail Richard Cobden Robert Owen secure share capital shareholders shillings success supply textile tion towns trade unions trusts undertakings United United Kingdom voluntary association wages wealth whole Wholesale Society workers workmen workpeople
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7 ページ - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
8 ページ - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally or, rather, necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
91 ページ - German factories, the young work seventeen hours in the twenty-four, that they work so hard that among thousands there is not one who grows to such a stature that he can be...
248 ページ - To commence the manufacture of such articles as the Society may determine upon, for the employment of such members as may be without employment, or who may be suffering in consequence of repeated reductions in their wages.
75 ページ - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance, and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist .by the oppression of their offspring.
25 ページ - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable, as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
86 ページ - Mine is that masculine species of charity which would lead me to inculcate in the minds of the labouring classes the love of independence, the privilege of self-respect, the disdain of being patronised or petted, the desire to accumulate, and the ambition to rise.
26 ページ - It is not impossible, therefore, that some of the regulations of this famous act may have proceeded from national animosity. They are as wise, however, as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom.
57 ページ - As the easy, regular, healthy, rational employment of the individuals forming these societies will create a very large surplus of their own products, beyond what they will have any desire to consume, each may be freely permitted to receive from the general store of the community whatever they may require. This, in practice, will prove to be the greatest economy...
91 ページ - Never will I believe that what makes a population stronger, and healthier, and wiser, and better, can ultimately make it poorer.