Malthus, Wages and the Labour Market in England 1790–1830

Autor:	Bernard Eccleston
Rok vydání:	1986
Předmět:	Wage rate Labour economics Homogeneous media_common.quotation_subject Economics Wage Subsistence agriculture Labor theory of value Iron law of wages media_common
Zdroj:	Malthus and His Time ISBN: 9781349182206
DOI:	10.1007/978-1-349-18218-3_10
Popis:	The approach of the classical economists to the determination of wages contains certain problems for the economic historian. Principally these concern the tension between their direct observations of wage patterns and their attempts to integrate these observations into a wider theoretical framework. In particular the links between the wage fund, the natural or subsistence wage and the labour theory of value, necessitated the simplification that labour was homogeneous so that ‘labour could be evaluated in relation to the great mass of day labour’.2 This simplification has left a legacy in later analysis of the wage structure which has tended to underemphasise the problems of relative wages.
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