The attraction of money wages regularly paid from the public purse, or the " Queen's pay," as it was popularly called, led to a general abandonment of other descriptions of industry, in order to participate in the advantages of the Relief Works. Landlords... The Irish Crisis - Side 46av Charles Edward Trevelyan - 1848 - 201 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| 1848 - 632 sider
...the lists, and the Lord-Lieutenant in vain directed that no person rated above 61. for the Poor-law cess should, except under very special circumstances,...were deserted ; and it was often difficult even to fet a coat patched or a pair of shoes mended, to such an extent ad the population of the south and... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1880 - 958 sider
...the advantages of the relief works. Landlords competed with one another in getting tho names of thoir tenants placed on the lists, farmers dismissed their...to the works, the clergy insisted on the claims of their respective congregations. It was impossible to exact from such multitudes a degree of labour... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1880 - 1000 sider
...in order to participate in the advantages of the relief works. Landlords computed with one another in getting the names of their tenants placed on the...dismissed their labourers, and sent them to the works, tho clergy insisted on tho claims of their respectivo congregations. It was impossible to exact from... | |
| James Taylor - 1882 - 340 sider
...works — many who could have found employment elsewhere — many who needed no employment at all. ' Landlords competed with each other in getting the...to the works; the clergy insisted on the claims of their respective congregations. The fields were left untilled, and the farmers could neither sow nor... | |
| Robert Dennis Collison Black - 1960 - 322 sider
...30/22/6); for the landlords' view, see J. Ball, What is to be Done for Ireland? (London, 1849), passim. the names of their tenants placed on the lists; farmers...dismissed their labourers and sent them to the works', while the landlords countered with the accusation that, through jobbery, wages on the public works... | |
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