Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2Roscher, Wilhelm
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Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2
Roscher, Wilhelm
Economics
[Footnote 168-8: _Commissionaires_, hack-drivers,
_Extraposthalter_ in Germany, porters, nurses, guides,
servants in watering places and countries visited by
tourists. A London porter gets at least a shilling an hour.
If employed by the day, he of course gets smaller wages.
Image venders, who travel from house to house, sell their
wares much lower at their own houses. The person who calls
them in from the street is obliged to pay them not only for
this one journey, but for several others which yielded them
no profit.]
[Footnote 168-9: If we call the minimum daily need or the
absolute requirement of the workman = m, the rate of daily
wages in the former case must amount to at least m + m/6; in
the latter, on the other hand, to m + m/4. A Bavarian
holiday estimated at a _minus_ of much more than 1,000,000
florins. (_Hermann_, II, Anfl., 192.)]
[Footnote 168-10: _Von Sonnenfels_, Polit. Abhandlungen,
1777, 332 ff.]
[Footnote 168-11: In a part of Lower Bavaria, in which there
were 204 holidays in a year, among them the anniversaries of
the consecration of 40 churches in the country about, and a
feast day following each such anniversary, as well as
target-shooting festivals, the celebration begins at 4
o'clock P. M. of the preceding day. (_Rau_, Lehrbuch, I, §
193.)]
SECTION CLXIX.
THE DISAGREEABLENESS OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF LABOR.--ITS EFFECT ON WAGES.
C. Lastly, the personal disagreeableness of the work, which must be
compensated for by higher wages. The uncleanness of a coal-worker's
task, that of the chimney-sweep, and the repulsive labor of the butcher,
demand high compensation, while other branches of business, themselves
productive of pleasure, and therefore engaged in by many for pleasure's
sake only, yield relatively little to those who engage in them as a
regular industry.[169-1]
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