The Coöperative Commonwealth in Its Outlines: An Exposition of Modern SocialismLee and Shepard, 1884 - 278 pages |
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... worker on an average $ 346 in wages and fleeced , on an average , from him the sum of $ 324 . That , perhaps , to many does not seem extravagant . But he who employed 10 workmen gained $ 3.240 60 24 THE PROFIT SYSTEM .
... worker on an average $ 346 in wages and fleeced , on an average , from him the sum of $ 324 . That , perhaps , to many does not seem extravagant . But he who employed 10 workmen gained $ 3.240 60 24 THE PROFIT SYSTEM .
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... curse to them . We will suppose such a man has talents , that he has qualified himself by hard study for a re- sponsible function in Society , yet this anarchical Society has no opening for him . He perhaps becomes a clerk.
... curse to them . We will suppose such a man has talents , that he has qualified himself by hard study for a re- sponsible function in Society , yet this anarchical Society has no opening for him . He perhaps becomes a clerk.
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... perhaps , for want . Under better arrangements these twenty would form a corps of subalterns under the really ablest physician — and not mere- ly the most successful impostor - physicking people for head- aches , while the latter ...
... perhaps , for want . Under better arrangements these twenty would form a corps of subalterns under the really ablest physician — and not mere- ly the most successful impostor - physicking people for head- aches , while the latter ...
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... perhaps be objected , that our own figures do not sup- port such an inference . The wages of labor it will be said , rose steadily from 1850 to 1880 ; to wit : $ 248 , $ 310 and $ 346 . This objection would be a good instance of the bad ...
... perhaps be objected , that our own figures do not sup- port such an inference . The wages of labor it will be said , rose steadily from 1850 to 1880 ; to wit : $ 248 , $ 310 and $ 346 . This objection would be a good instance of the bad ...
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... perhaps a misap- prehension here . There is neither here nor in England any le- gal normal working - day for men . Whatever legal restriction exists applies to women and children exclusively , and as to them even only , when they are ...
... perhaps a misap- prehension here . There is neither here nor in England any le- gal normal working - day for men . Whatever legal restriction exists applies to women and children exclusively , and as to them even only , when they are ...
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