Volume 1

Labour and life of the people / edited by Charles Booth.

Date:
1889-
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Labour and life of the people / edited by Charles Booth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by his existence those strange assumptions which figured for man in the political economy of Ricardo—an Always Enlightened Selfishness, seeking employment or profit with an absolute mobility of body and mind, without pride, without preference, without interests outside the struggle for the existence and welfare of the individual and the family. We see these assumptions verified in the Jewish inhabitants of Whitechapel ; andin the Jewish Hast End trades we may watch the prophetic deduction of the Hebrew economist actually fulfilled—in a perpetually recurring bare sub- sistence wage for the great majority of manual workers.
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