Perils, pastimes, and pleasures of an emigrant in Australia, Vancouver's Island and California.

Date:
1849
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Credit: Perils, pastimes, and pleasures of an emigrant in Australia, Vancouver's Island and California. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dustrial classes becomes greater 'pari passu with the numerical growth of those classes ? To solve this important question, we must con¬ sider what the nature and extent of our resources for employing the industrial classes are; and these may be nearly wholly comprised under the general terms of agriculture and manufactures—including in the latter all handicrafts of every description. Now, of the latter, it is true that the demand for manufacturing labour would increase with the in¬ crease of population, if there was a similar increase in the demand for agricultural labour. But the demand for agricultural labour in this country has a limit which it reached long ago, and, therefore, every increase of the agricultural population, instead of creating an increased demand for manufacturing products, (as every increase of the manufacturing population creates an increased demand for agri¬ cultural produce), flies, by necessity, to manufacturing labour itself, and thus inordinately swells the supply of it, instead of augmenting the demand for it. The cause, therefore, of the disease is the limit which nature has placed to the demand for agri-
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