Working class
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
a working man · actual producers · labourers · men of the working class · the workers · wage-earners · workers · working man · working people
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Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Wage-earning class who produce socially but own no raw material, product, or machinery; suffer most from commercial crises
The working people, who suffered most from the crisis, were little inclined to bear their misery silently.
They are simply wage-earners, working at wages regulated by the average standard of life or subsistence in their trade;
Notably, we may observe the glut of commodities as the pre-eminent cause of lack of employment and misery for the working classes, already instanced by Robert Owen as directly due to the use of machinery by the great capitalists exclusively for their own profit.
Economics of Socialism
The working class, both as the producers of the press that published the work and as the economic subject of the wage and labour debates.
This Press is entirely organised and managed by men of the working class in the interest of the Socialist movement in Great Britain;
The wages of “a working man” are what he can get, after landlord, government and (shall we say) banker have scrambled for their portions!
It is that the wages of a working man are ultimately coincident with what he produces after the deduction of rent, taxes and the interest on capital.