Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2Roscher, Wilhelm
General
Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2
Roscher, Wilhelm
Economics
[Footnote 168-5: Thus, the darning of stockings in the sandy
parts of North Germany, in the Highlands of Scotland, in the
Faroe Islands, and formerly, even in the ante-rooms of the
Russian nobility. (_Schlözer_, Anfangsgründe der
Staatswirthsch, I, 126.) Flax spinning and linen weaving in
Westphalia and Ireland, and wool weaving in the East Indies.
Manufacturing industries must be in a very highly developed
condition, and machinery carried to a high degree of
perfection to compete in price with these accessory
industries. Cheapness of many products manufactured in
convents and monasteries.]
[Footnote 168-6: Among these interruptions, may also be
reckoned the prospect the laborer has of being early
incapacitated for work, and thus of seeing himself cut off
from every other source of support. This is one of the
principal reasons why opera singers are generally better
paid than actors.]
[Footnote 168-7: In Leipzig, in 1863, mason and carpenter
journeymen earned during the summer, from twenty silver
groschens to one thaler, ordinary garden workmen, 20 silver
groschens, while shoemaker journeymen did not make much more
than 3½ thalers a week, and manual laborers, only from 10
to 15 silver groschens a day. The masons of Paris have the
reputation of being the best patrons of the savings banks,
and, on that account, are more exposed to being attacked by
thieves than any other class. (_Frégier_, Des Classes
dangereuses, II, 3, 1.) High wages paid for threshing in
East Prussia, because, the workman during the winter can be
employed in very few different kinds of labor, and therefore
must earn his entire support by threshing. In Paris, of
101,000 persons engaged in industry in 1860, 6,400 had to
calculate on no interruption of their work, the remaining
number, however, lost with a certain degree of regularity,
from 2 to 4 months a year. (Revue des deux Mondes, 15 Fév.,
1865.) If the interruption can be so accurately estimated in
advance that the workman may engage in some business for
himself during the interval, as for instance when the
workmen in the Bavarian breweries work during the summer as
masons, its influence on wages decreases. (_Storch_,
Handbuch, I, 192.) As to how, in Switzerland, since 1850,
the guaranty of full employment to masons in winter is
considered as an addition to the wages of summer, see
_Böhmert_, Arbeiterverhältnisse, I, 141.]
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