Political economy

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Identifikator:: 867647221

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93157

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Chapman, Sydney John http://d-nb.info/gnd/123743141

Title:: Political economy

Place of publication:: London [u.a.]

Publisher:: Williams & Norgate [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (255 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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PROBLEMS OF DISTRIBUTION 245 or requires merely a dexterity which can easily be acquired by anybody, so that it is the common resort of persons brought up to nothing who suddenly find it necessary to do something at home to make or add to an income. Consequently there is apt to be an over-supply of out-workers. Moreover much that they do competes with production by machinery or semi-domestic work. In so far as there is competition with machinery, the rate of remuneration of out-workers must be comparatively paltry if they are to secure employment at all. And so must their rate of pay be also when, in the case of simple sewing work for domestic needs, they come sharply into competition with consumers who ordinarily sew for themselves and reckon the cost very low because the work is to a large extent occupation for idle moments. Furthermore, there are good reasons for believing that the pay of out-workers is disposed to settle below rather than at their marginal worth. Their strategic position is weak. They are mostly poor and ignorant and they are always unorganised, so that they cannot effectively resist what seems to them unreasonable in the individual bargains by which they are bound ; and they may not

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