A History of LabourMacmillan, 1922 - 415 pages |
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Page 126 - ... competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Page 104 - ... yield unto the hired person, both in the time of scarcity and in the time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages.
Page 321 - Whereas also the failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of labour is an obstacle in the way of other nations which desire to improve the conditions in their own countries; The High Contracting Parties, moved by sentiments of justice and humanity as well as by the desire to secure the permanent peace of the world, agree to the following : CHAPTER I.
Page 307 - workshop" means any premises, room or place, not being a factory as above defined, wherein any manual labor is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental to any process of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article...
Page 126 - ... or the greater part of them, shall take order from time to time, by and with the consent of two or more such justices of peace as is aforesaid...
Page 232 - Turks had claimed in the sixteenth century diminished throughout the two succeeding centuries, till, in the closing years of the eighteenth and the opening years of the nineteenth, it disappeared altogether for a while before the onset of the Wahabites.
Page 126 - Sums of Money as they shall think fit) a convenient Stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron, and other necessary Ware and Stuff, to set the Poor on Work: And also competent Sums of Money for and towards the necessary Relief of the Lame, Impotent, Old, Blind, and such other among them being Poor, and not able to work...
Page 260 - ... the cold commendation of a public advantage never was, and never will be, a match for the quick sensibility of a private loss...
Page 211 - For, however specious in theory the project might be, of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would, in effect, be found to be prejudicial to their morals and happiness; it would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in agriculture, and other laborious employments to which their rank in society had destined them...
Page 321 - Whereas the League of Nations has for its object the establishment of universal peace, and such a peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice...