...labouring families (including under that term all those who depend on their own labour for subsistence) ; or, to speak more concisely, on the extent of the...compared with the number of labourers to be maintained. This proposition is so nearly self-evident, that if political economy were a new science, I should...

...ERRORS ON THE CAUSES AFFECTING WAGES, (concluded.) I STATED in the last Lecture, that the quantity and quality of the commodities obtained by each labouring...the present Lecture I shall consider the remainder. f Fourthly. It is inconsistent with the doctrine V that the general rate of wages can, except in two...

...labouring families (including under that terra all those who depend on their own labour for subsistence) ; or, to speak more concisely, on the extent of the...compared with the number of labourers to be maintained. This proposition is so nearly self-evident, that if political economy were a new science, I should...

...wages (ie the quantity and quality of commodities obtainable by the labourer and his family) depends on the extent of the fund for the maintenance of labourers,...compared with the number of labourers to be maintained." Of this proposition, he says, " it is so nearly self-evident, that it may appear scarcely to deserve...

...which any serious alteration can be suggested. It is completely true, that " the rate of wages depends on the extent of the fund for the maintenance of labourers,...compared with the number of labourers to be maintained." The rate, therefore, may manifestly be affected at two different ends ; one by increasing or diminishing...

...quantity and quality of the commodities directly or indirectly appropriated during the year to ilie use of the labouring population, compared with the...compared with the number of labourers to be maintained. On what, then, does the extent of that fund depend ? In the first place, on the productiveness of lahour...

...opinions inconsistent with the proposition, that the proximate cause deciding the rate of wages is the extent of the fund for the maintenance of labourers,...compared with the number of labourers to be maintained. Enumerate them. 5. Upon what does the extent of the fund for the maintenance of labourers really depend...

...opinions inconsistent with the proposition, that the proximate cause deciding the rate of wages is the extent of the fund for the maintenance of labourers...compared with the number of labourers to be maintained. Enumerate them. 3. State, concisely, the true law regulating the rate of wages, and illustrate it by...

...principal errors which are inconsistent with our elementary proposition, namely, that the quantity and quality of the commodities obtained by each labouring...compared with the number of labourers to be maintained. \ On what, then, does the extent of that fund depend? In theirs* ' jplace, .on the productiveness of...

...serious omission is usually made. Thus, among many others, Senior saysi that the Rate of Wages depends "on the extent of the Fund for the maintenance of...with the number of labourers to be maintained." And Mill says2 — "Wages depend mainly upon the demand and supply of labour ; or, as it is often expressed,...