Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Department of Economics, in charge of Professor H. C. Adams, Ph. D., of the University of Michigan. Professor Adams will deliver eighteen lectures on the History of Industrial Society in England and America, beginning with the Middle Ages and tracing genetically the gradual rise of those conditions in the labor world which cause so much anxiety and discussion today...
...come here from the preparatory schools with very fair voices, perhaps, but with little knowledge of music and still less careful training. The result is that the Glee Club has frequently to take comparatively untrained men and work them up to the requisite standard. If a part of this labor could be done beforehand, the saving and value of it to the University Glee Club would be infinite...
...Land being a gift of nature and not the product of labor, is the inheritance of men, consequently not a fit subject for private appropriation: its site value is created by society and not by the individual owners: Political Science, Vol. XXXVI, p. 348; Barry. "Moloch of Monopolies," Forum, June 1889; vide "Best general references...
...operation it would (a) prevent speculation in land, (b) lower taxes on food, (c) reduce the capitalized value of land, (d) lead to a more effective use of land, and (e) relieve the extreme competition of the labor market: Labor Movement, ch. XXIII, p. 561 et seq; Sherman's articles in Forum, Sept...
...Protestant Missions" by Edmund Collins, "In Darkest America" by Joseph P. Reed, "Rhampsinitus and the Wise Thief" by M. Allen Watson, "Municipal Reform" by Oliver Sumner Teall, "Slovenly Americans" by Julien Gordon, "A Protected Queen" by Mason Abercrombie Shufeldt, "Speculation as a Fine Art" by D. G. Watts, and "Labor Unions and Strikes in Ancient Rome" by G. A. Danziger, The three poems of the number are exceptional...