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Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2

Note 186-5 — Chapter IV

John J. (John Joseph) Lalor translation

According to this, it is easy to tell what influence the increasing skill or activity of the working class (for instance by a decrease in the number of holidays, coöperation of wife and child) must have. Where there has been no accompanying and corresponding elevation of the standard of life, and of the want of the class, the gain soon falls to the lot of the capitalists or landowners.

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