Labourers

Examples

• Servants, labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They are the work of servants and labourers who derive the principal part of their subsistence from some other employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You say poor labourers cannot afford to buy bread at a high price, unless they had higher wages. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This war was more marked in England than elsewhere, because there more of the new machines were first introduced, and the number of labourers in those fields was the greatest. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the succeeding years of plenty, it was more difficult to get labourers and servants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The daily or weekly recompence which such labourers occasionally received from their masters, was evidently not the whole price of their labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The men-servants, who leave their masters, become independent labourers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We travelled at the time of the vintage, and heard the song of the labourers, as we glided down the stream. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Every year the demand for servants and labourers would, in all the different classes of employments, be less than it had been the year before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Land, however improved, will yield no revenue without a circulating capital, which maintains the labourers who cultivate and collect its produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And are human labourers to have no holidays, because of the bees? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He is eager, therefore, to collect labourers from all quarters, and to reward them with the most liberal wages. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The demand for labourers, the funds destined for maintaining them increase, it seems, still faster than they can find labourers to employ. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The labourers in the village and the boys from the school, assembled on the lawn, caught up the cheering and echoed it back on us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This last sum, indeed, does not exceed what frequently earned by common labourers in many country parishes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The sovereign, for example, with all the officers both of justice and war who serve under him, the whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He fixed the status of women, the status of labourers, the status of the peasant; they all struggle to this day in the net of his hard definitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We were long fellow-labourers in the best of all works, the work of peace. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Some were farm labourers; a good deal worked at Mr. Oliver's needle-factory, and at the foundry. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• If he uses it as a capital, he employs it in the maintenance of productive labourers, who reproduce the value, with a profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Not only his labouring servants, but his labouring cattle, are productive labourers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is otherwise with the work of farmers and country labourers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She said they were sure to meet some of the farm-labourers as soon as they got to the moor. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The persons whose capitals are employed in any of those four ways, are themselves productive labourers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The same number of labourers in husbandry will, in different years, produce very different quantities of corn, wine, oil, hops, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Labourers easily find employment; but the owners of capitals find it difficult to get labourers to employ. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You'd be taking less wages than the other labourers--all for the sake of another man's children. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• What takes place among the labourers in a particular workhouse, takes place, for the same reason, among those of a great society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This derangement does sometimes occur, but the curtailment of the number of labourers is but temporary after all. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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