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In either event the number of the unemployed is not reduced , and the farmer from the West , uniting with the immigrant ... reduction of the hours of labor or an increase of ten per cent . in wages , does not realize that through our ...
In either event the number of the unemployed is not reduced , and the farmer from the West , uniting with the immigrant ... reduction of the hours of labor or an increase of ten per cent . in wages , does not realize that through our ...
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hours without reduced pay are an equivalent to quite an advance above present rates ; and were it understood that labor ... To this I would reply that , if a gradual and not a sudden reduction of the hours is accepted by labor , values ...
hours without reduced pay are an equivalent to quite an advance above present rates ; and were it understood that labor ... To this I would reply that , if a gradual and not a sudden reduction of the hours is accepted by labor , values ...
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The habits of the drinker not only reduce the comforts of the home by useless and criminal spendings , but they frequently bring about a reduction of wages . The use of liquor degrades and brutalizes the workman ; it blunts his tiner ...
The habits of the drinker not only reduce the comforts of the home by useless and criminal spendings , but they frequently bring about a reduction of wages . The use of liquor degrades and brutalizes the workman ; it blunts his tiner ...
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Contents
THE OLD ORDER CHANGES | 18 |
THE AWAKENING | 31 |
The workman studies the Bill of RightsConditions of white and black slaves | 57 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Thirty Years of Labor, 1859-1889 Reprints of economic classics |
| Author | Terence Vincent Powderly |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | A. M. Kelley, 1967 |
| ISBN | 0678002495, 9780678002490 |
| Length | 372 pages |
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