...employment becomes unsteady, and its remuneration in wages is diminished. Such persons, therefore, are under the strongest inducements to quit the less eligible...the pauper class is placed in its proper position, ielow the condition of the independent labourer. Every penny bestowed, that tends to render the condition...

...employment becomes unsteady, and its remuneration in wages is diminished. Such persons, therefore, are under the strongest inducements to quit the less eligible class of labourers, and enter into the more eligible class of paupers. The converse is the effect when the pauper class is placed...

...sentence of the Report of the English. Commissioners, .lest the independent poor should be induced " to quit the less eligible class of labourers, and enter the more eligible class of paupers." This principle seems to me a very just one, and therefore I expressly stated formerly, that I think...

...really or apparently so eligible as the situation of the independent labourer of the lowest class. Every penny bestowed that tends to render the condition of the pauper more eligible than that of an independent labourer is a bounty on indolence and vice. One further primary condition of a sound...

...persons, therefore, are under the strongest inducements to quit the less eligible class of laborers and enter the more eligible class of paupers. The...proper position, below the condition of the independent laborer. Every penny bestowed that tends to render the condition of the pauper more eligible than that...

...persons, therefore, are under the strongest inducements to quit the less eligible class of laborers, and enter the more eligible class of paupers. The...proper position below the condition of the independent laborer. Every penny bestowed that tends to render the condition of the pauper more eligible than that...

...industry is impaired, their employment becomes unsteady, and its remuneration in wages is diminished. The converse is the effect when the pauper class is placed in its proper condition below the position of the independent labourer ;" and, therefore, "every penny bestowed that...

...to be inadequate, but that it is to be given under conditions such as will not tempt the independent "to quit the less eligible class of labourers and enter the more eligible class of paupers." On pp. 261-3 the authors of English Poor-Law Policy suggest that the Central Authority has abandoned...

...remuneration in wages is diminished. It follows that such persons are under the strongest inducement to quit the less eligible class of labourers, and enter the more eligible class of paupers.1 The standard, therefore, to which reference must be made in fixing the condition of those...

...employment becomes unsteady, and its remuneration in wages is diminished. Such persons, therefore, are under the strongest inducements to quit the less eligible...bestowed, that tends to render the condition of the paupers more eligible than that of the independent labourer, is a bounty on indolence and vice. We...