Over-Population and Its Remedy: Or an Inquiry Into the Extent and Causes of the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the British ... the Means of Remedying It (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Kind of Evidence admissible. Proposed Test of Over-popula tion. Actual Remuneration of agricultural Labour. Where highest in Lincolnshire Rutland Northum berland Cumberland, and Westmoreland. Where lowest - in Dorsetshire Wiltshire Somersetshire. Condition of agricultural Labourers in Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bed fordshire, Buckinghamshire, South Wales. Condition of other Labourers in rural Districts. Migration from the Counties into Towns. State of Town Labourers. Their recent severe Distress. Examples of it at Stockport and other Places. - Brief Duration of this Distress. - Digres sion respecting the Causes from which it proceeded. Com parative Prosperity of the urban labouring Population in ordinary Times. - Difi'erences in Remuneration of different Classes of Town Labourers. Trades Unions. Long-con tinued Distress of Hand-loom Weavers. Sufferings of indigent Strangers in Towns. Of self-dependent Females and Children. General Conclusions as to the Extent of the Redundancy of Population in rural Districts, and in Towns.
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