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... labor is the chief ingredient in its price — that labor which is so valuable and high- priced here, and so cheap as to be almost worthless in Bugsia. The price of labor in Russia is seven or eight cents a (lay. It is here eight or ten ...
... labor is the chief ingredient in its price — that labor which is so valuable and high- priced here, and so cheap as to be almost worthless in Bugsia. The price of labor in Russia is seven or eight cents a (lay. It is here eight or ten ...
Page 2135
... labor and the profits of capital. For it will lie conceded, I presume, that if »ny thing can be produced cheaper in this country than in Great Britain, it is the produce of the soil am! the animals sustained by it. And yet the very men ...
... labor and the profits of capital. For it will lie conceded, I presume, that if »ny thing can be produced cheaper in this country than in Great Britain, it is the produce of the soil am! the animals sustained by it. And yet the very men ...
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... labor, and twelve millions the profits of capital. The proportion which the wages of labor bears to the profits of capital, is notoriously much greater in the woollen manufacture than in the cotton. More of the labor is performed by ...
... labor, and twelve millions the profits of capital. The proportion which the wages of labor bears to the profits of capital, is notoriously much greater in the woollen manufacture than in the cotton. More of the labor is performed by ...
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