Recent Economic Changes, And Their Effect On the Production And Distribution of Wealth And the Well-Being of Society
The book Recent Economic Changes, And Their Effect On the Production And Distribution of Wealth And the Well-Being of Society was written by author David Ames Wells Here you can read free online of Recent Economic Changes, And Their Effect On the Production And Distribution of Wealth And the Well-Being of Society book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Recent Economic Changes, And Their Effect On the Production And Distribution of Wealth And the Well-Being of Society a good or bad book?
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On the Continent of Europe, the grievances of labor, attributable to new conditions of production and distribution, seem to be mainly confined to the agriculturists and to those bred lo handicraft employments; and for both of these classes the outlook is not promising. In Great Britain the number of persons who are in want, for lack of employment, appears to have largely increased 376 RECENT ECONOMIC CHANGES. in receut years.* But as there has been no cessation in the growth of the mechanical i...ndustries of the United King- dom, or in her transportation service by land or sea, or in her production of coal and iron,, or in the consumption of her staple food commodities — such growth, although not increasing as it were by " leaps and bounds," as in some former periods (as during the decade from 1865 to 1875), being always in a greater ratio than her increase in popula- tion, f it would seem that any increase in the number of her necessarily unemployed must have been mainly derived from the one branch of her industry that has not been prosperous, namely, agriculture, in which the losses in recent years on the part alike of landlords, tenants, and farm-laborers, from decline in land and rental values, in the prices of farm prod- ucts, and through reduction of wages, has been very great.J * " The one thing which I, and those associated with me, always at once peremptorily refuse to do," said recently an English (London) clergyman whose life is among the poor, " is to try and get men, women, and children work to do.
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