 | Lorinda Perry - Millinery - 1916 - 142 pages
...$7.00 and less than $8.00 8 3 — 11 12.1 $8.00 and less than $9.00 2 1 1 4 4.4 Total 66 12 13 91 100.0 he is employed, must not only maintain him while he...thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion."1 This requirement can not be met by millinery makers, as a study of the average weekly wage... | |
 | Frederick Cecil Mills - Public welfare - 1917 - 220 pages
...employment.1 The more inconstant the employment the higher will be the wage, for " What he earns . . . while he is employed, must not only maintain him while...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." This principle is repeated by Smith's successors for over one hundred years, practically unquestioned... | |
 | Economics - 1919 - 608 pages
...only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and despondent moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." To this Malthus contributed his theory of population. Practice, however, showed that the increase of... | |
 | Economics - 1919 - 546 pages
...only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and despondent moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." To this Malthus contributed his theory of population. Practice, however, showed that the increase of... | |
 | Thames Williamson - Social problems - 1922 - 844 pages
...and his employment at all other times depends upon READINGS IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY the occasional call of his customers. He is liable, in consequence, to...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. [Thus masons and bricklayers earn from one half more to double the wages of common laborers.] . . .... | |
 | Thames Williamson - Economics - 1923 - 568 pages
...hard frost nor in foul weather, and his employment at all other times depends upon the occasional call of his customers. He is liable, in consequence, to...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. [Thus masons and bricklayers earn from one half more to double the wages of common laborers.] . . .... | |
 | Warren Benjamin Catlin - Labor - 1926 - 682 pages
...wages of the bricklayer or mason must be sufficient not only to maintain him while he is idle, but to "make him some compensation for those anxious and...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." 2 If employers in an irregular trade or a community where such a trade is carried on wish to hold men... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1922 - 522 pages
...twenty to business in healthy seasons, may lust as well as the bricklayer be supposed to receive ' some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion '. l 1 [The argument foreshadowed in the introductory paragraphs of the chapter requires an allegation... | |
 | Adam Smith - History - 2008 - 1148 pages
...a journeyman may be pretty sure of employment almost every day in the year that he is able to work. A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither...anxious and desponding moments which the thought of so 1 [The 'ought' is equivalent to 'it is reasonable they should be' in the previous paragraph, and to... | |
 | 514 pages
...of employment opportunities for masons and bricklayers, Smith commented: "What he earns, therefore, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion" (Smith, 1776, Book I, Chap. X). 33 This is, both optimal employment contract models and compensating-differentials... | |
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A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard frost nor in foul weather, and his employment at all other times depends upon the occasional calls of his customers. He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns,... 
