 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...year that he is able to work. A mafon or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard froft nor in foul weather, and his employment at all other times depends upon the occafional calls of his cuftomers. He is liable, in confequence, to be frequently without any. What... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...may be pretty sure of employment almost every day in : the year that he is able to work, A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard...but make him some compensation for those anxious and despQnding moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812
...year that he is able to work. A mafon or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard froft nor in foul weather, and his employment at all other times depends upon the occafional calls of his cuflomers. He is liable, in confequence, to be frequently without any. What... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...year that he is able to work. A mafon or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard froft nor in foul weather, and his employment at all other times depends upon the occafional calls of his cuftomers. He is liable, in confequeiice, to be frequently without any. What... | |
 | 1817 - 522 pages
...uncertainty, is one of the first rules of political economy, , . " A mason or bricklayer," says Adam Smith, " can work neither in hard frost, nor in foul weather...What he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must maintain him while he is idle. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1822 - 522 pages
...may be pretty sure of employment almost every day in the year that he is able to work. A mason or* bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard...is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxions and desponding moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1852 - 640 pages
...markets, or from a suspension of demand, or from a commercial crisis, must be excepted) . " A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard...upon the occasional calls of his customers. He is liable,in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns, therefore, while he is employed,... | |
 | Erasmus Peshine Smith - Economics - 1853 - 284 pages
...or a ' bricklayer, it is said, can work neither in hard frost nor in foul weather; and what he earns while he is employed must not only maintain him while he is idle, but, Dr. Smith suggests, " make him. some compensation for those anxious and desponding moments, which the... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - Economics - 1864 - 106 pages
...from overstocked markets, or from a suspension of demand, or from a commercial crisis). A mason or bricklayer, on. the contrary, can work neither in...weather, and his employment at all other times depends on the occasional calls of his customers. He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any.... | |
 | Erasmus Peshine Smith - Economics - 1868 - 274 pages
...or a bricklayer, it is said, can work neither in hard frost nor in foul weather; and what he earns while he is employed must not only maintain him while he is idle, but, Dr. Smith suggests, "make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding moments, which the... | |
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Employment is much more constant in some trades than in others. In the greater part of manufactures, a journeyman may be pretty sure of employment almost every day in the year that he is able to work. A mason or* bricklayer, on the contrary, can work... 
