Women Novelists: Their Contribution to the Proletarian Novel in the Victorian Age |
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Page 90
... wage - rise , and they even cut wages under severe pressure from American manu- facturers . In order to avert the strike , Margaret wants Thornton to explain this position to the workers , who think that trade is prospering , and the ...
... wage - rise , and they even cut wages under severe pressure from American manu- facturers . In order to avert the strike , Margaret wants Thornton to explain this position to the workers , who think that trade is prospering , and the ...
Page 93
... wages , to say nothing of an increase in them , thus doing good to none . Continuing his ad- vocacy of the present strike , Nicholas argues that it is but an expression of the deep - seated resentment of the already under - paid workers ...
... wages , to say nothing of an increase in them , thus doing good to none . Continuing his ad- vocacy of the present strike , Nicholas argues that it is but an expression of the deep - seated resentment of the already under - paid workers ...
Page 226
... wage payment . They often bear the risk of not being employed at all . Thus , their position is of extreme insecurity , both economic and professional . Therefore , they are compelled to accept whatever wages are offered , because of ...
... wage payment . They often bear the risk of not being employed at all . Thus , their position is of extreme insecurity , both economic and professional . Therefore , they are compelled to accept whatever wages are offered , because of ...
Contents
MRS FRANCES TROLLOPE AND CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH | 43 |
I | 70 |
CHARLOTTE BRONTE | 112 |
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