The State in Relation to LabourMacmillan and Company, 1894 - 171 páginas |
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action Acts of Parliament adult advantage agricultural Agricultural Children Act allowed apprenticeship arbitration arise attempt bodies capital capitalist classes coal combination common law conciliation considerable conspiracy cotton course Dean CHURCH difficulty economic effect employed employers employment evil existence experience fact Factory Acts Factory and Workshop favour FREDERIC HARRISON Government guilds Henry VIII illegal individual industry Inns of Court inquire inspectors instance institutions interest interference JOHN MORLEY judges JULIAN COrbett justices kind labour legislation Legislature liberty limited machinery manufacture matter ment ordinary organisation Parliament parties partnership possible practice present principle probably production profits question railway rate of wages regard regulations relating repealed restriction result sanitary share skill social SPENCER WALPOLE Statute of Apprentices strikes success theory things tion trade disputes trade societies trades unions Vict whole women workmen Workshop Act young persons
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Página 142 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Página 82 - The institution of long apprenticeships has no tendency to form young people to industry. A journeyman who works by the piece is likely to be industrious, because he derives a benefit from every exertion of his industry. An apprentice is likely to be idle, and almost always is so, because he has no immediate interest to be otherwise. In the inferior employments, the sweets of labour consist altogether in the recompense of labour.
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Página 82 - ... being paid in proportion to the little work which he could execute, and paying in his turn for the materials which he might sometimes spoil through awkwardness and inexperience.
Página 137 - Where any person wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service or of hiring, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to endanger human life, or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether real or personal to destruction or serious injury...
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