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An Essay on the Causes and Remedies of Poverty (1852) Joseph Salway Eisdell No preview available - 2008 |
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able-bodied poor action advance advantages afford AGNES STRICKLAND amount ARTHUR HALL attained better burthen capital capitalists cause character charity cheapness Christian circumstances classes cloth gilt condition conduct consumers crime criminal demand dependent division of labour duty Edition effect efforts employed employer England Engravings equal established evil exertion existing extended factories fcap gain give hands Henry VIII husbandry ILLUSTRATED impotent poor improvement increase industrial injury interest Ireland JOHN CUMMING JOHN LEECH labour land loss machinery mankind master means ment moral qualities morocco multitude natural object occupations offences operations parish parties PATERNOSTER ROW persons poor laws population possess poverty present produce profit prosperity punishment purchase raise relief remedy rich skill society subsistence success suffering sufficient superior supply things tion trade unskilled vagrancy VIRTUE VIRTUE & CO wages want of employment wealth workmen
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