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according agricultural amount average Bebel bourgeoisie capitalist census cent chap CHAPTER clerks collectivist Communist Manifesto companies Confederation of Labour Congress cotton Das Kapital declared decrease deduction distributed economic employers enterprises estab establishments employing estates fact Faubert figures francs Georges Sorel Government Guesde hand trades heads of establishments hectares holders hours of labour income increase individuals industrial establishments iron law Jaurès Jules Guesde Kapital Karl Marx land less lishments Louis Blanc manufacturer Marx and Engels means ment mill million dollars Municipal number of establishments number of portions number of workmen obtained organisation output owners Paris Paul Lafargue Pierre Leroux political population production profit programme proletariat proportion railway raw material recognises represent Rodbertus Saint Simon says shares social Socialists strike surplus surplus-labour surplus-value theory tion total capital total number trade unions trusts undertakings variable capital wage-earners Werner Sombart workshops Yves Guyot
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Page 108 - The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 271 - Act be deemed to be a municipal authority or company or contractor upon whom is imposed by Act of Parliament the duty of supplying such city, borough, town, or place, or part thereof, with gas or water. 15- The word
Page 271 - Where any person wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service or of hiring, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, cither alone or in combination with others, will be to endanger human life, or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether real or personal to destruction or serious injury...
Page 271 - ... company or contractor, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to deprive the inhabitants of that city...
Page 108 - ... absolutely fixed and constant. It varies at different times in the same country, and very materially differs in different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people. An English labourer would consider his wages under their natural rate, and too scanty to support a family, if they enabled him to purchase no other food than potatoes, and to live in no better habitation than a mud cabin; yet these moderate demands of nature are often deemed sufficient in countries...
Page 271 - ... liable either to pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.
Page 114 - It tells us that in two different things - in 1 quarter of corn and x cwt. of iron, there exists in equal quantities something common to both. The two things must therefore be equal to a third, which in itself is neither the one nor the other. Each of them, so far as it is exchange value, must therefore be reducible to this third.
Page 120 - Capital is dead labour, that vampire-like^ only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
Page xii - That in the opinion of this Conference the time has arrived when the Labour Party should have as a definite object the socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, to be controlled by a democratic State in the interest of the entire community ; and the complete emancipation of Labour from the domination of capitalism and landlordism, with the establishment of social and economic equality between the sexes.
Page 117 - That part of capital then, which is represented by the means of production, by the raw material, auxiliary material and the instruments of labor, does not, in the process of production, undergo any quantitative alteration of value.