 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...compliance with their terms. The masters^tiejng fewer in number, can combine much more easily •j'a'nd the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit, their combinations, while it prohibitsthose of the workmen. We "have no acts Of parliament' against' combining to lower th6 price... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1822 - 522 pages
...the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms'. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorises, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen.... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 576 pages
...CAUSES OF BOOK i. being fewer in number, can combine mucb more easily; and the law, besides, authorises, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We Imvc no Acts of Parliament against combining to lower the price of work ; but many against combining... | |
 | Gustav Cohn - Railroads - 1874 - 1056 pages
...Lohnfrage: bekanntlich sagt schon Ad. Smith (Inquiry Book I, eh. VIII, vol. I, p. 103): „The masters being fewer in number can combine much more easily and the law besides authorises . . their combinations , while it prohibits those of the workmen". *) Im Jahre 1872 (Statist.... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily ; and the law, besides, authorises or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen.... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1880 - 486 pages
...agricultural modified by the adoption of the principle labourer throughout the greater part of Eubeing fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorises, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen.... | |
 | Australia. Parliament - Australia - 1903 - 1422 pages
...the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily...besides authorizes, or at least does not prohibit, their combination, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no Acts of Parliament against combining... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 328 pages
...bargains as a rule the masters have the advantage. They can combine more easily, and the law authorises or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. It took the nation a century to recognise the essential truth of these positions, which in the meantime... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 324 pages
...bargains as a rule the masters have the advantage. They can combine more easily, and the law authorises or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. It took the nation a century to recognise the essential truth of these positions, which in the meantime... | |
 | Du Bois Henry Loux - Democracy - 1920 - 286 pages
...17. "Whoever imagines that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject." "And the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit their combinations." I. p. 67. "Masters are always and every where in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination."... | |
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It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily;... 
