 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 576 pagini
...rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere iu a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination,...not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. To violate this combination is everywhere a most unpopular action, and a sort of reproach to... | |
 | Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie - 1870 - 412 pagini
...'Whoever imagines that masters rarely combine is as ignnrnnt of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit but constant and uniform combination not to raise wages above the actual rate. Hasten, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink wages... | |
 | Albert Sidney Bolles - 1874 - 222 pagini
...purpose of resisting an advance of wages. As long ago as when ADAM SMITH* wrote, he said that "masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but...and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual rate. To violate this combination is everywhere a most unpopular action, and... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pagini
...upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but...not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. To violate this combination is everywhere a most unpopular action, and a sort of reproach to... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 432 pagini
...consequences of withstanding a just demand which is essential to competition in any true sense ? " Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but...and uniform, combination not to raise the wages of labor above their actual rate." l It is well enough for the peace of industrial society and the mutual... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 440 pagini
...consequences of withstanding a just demand which is essential to competition in any true sense ? " Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but...and uniform, combination not to raise the wages of labor above their actual rate." ' It is well enough for the peace of industrial society and the mutual... | |
 | 1879 - 884 pagini
...rest, and deserves to be taken into account, although it is often overlooked — namely, that ' masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but...not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate' (Adam Smith, book i. chap. vii.). Again: 'Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1879 - 1410 pagini
...rest, and deserves to be taken into account, although it is often overlooked — namely, that ' masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but...not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate ' (Adam Smith, book i. chap. vii.). Again : ' Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations... | |
 | Richard Heber Newton - 1886 - 398 pagini
...laborers themselves are employers of labor, and are not sorry to get the commodity cheap. "f " Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but...constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages above their actual rate. . . . We seldom, indeed, hear of this combination, because it is the usual... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1887 - 566 pagini
...and find his better market ? f This is a great question, for upon the answer to it * " Masters arc always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant...and uniform, combination not to raise the wages of labor above their actual rate."—Adam Smith : "Wealth of Nations." f In discussing his valuable agricultural... | |
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We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere... 
