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The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation.
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statistics, but published the names both of the labouring families examined and of their landlords. The following list gives the wages paid in three villages in the neighborhood of Blanford, Wimbourne, and Poole. The villages are the property of Mr. G. Bankes and of the Earl of Shaftesbury. It will be noted that, just like Bankes, this “low church pope,” this head of English pietists, pockets a great part of the miserable wages of the labourers under the pretext of house-rent:—

FIRST VILLAGE

(a) Children (b) Number of
Members in
Family
(c) Weekly
Wage of the
Men
(d) Weekly
Wage of the
Children
(e) Weekly
Income of
the Whole
Family
(f) Weekly
Rent
(g) Total
weekly wage
after deduction
of Rent
(h) Weekly
Income per
head
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
2 4 8 0 8 0 2 0 6 0 1 6
3 5 8 0 8 0 1 6 6 6 1
2 4 8 0 8 0 1 0 7 0 1 9
2 4 8 0 8 0 1 0 7 0 1 9
6 8 7 0 1 -, 1 6, 10 6 2 0 8 6 1
3 5 7 0 1 -, 2 - 7 0 1 4 5 8 1

SECOND VILLAGE

s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
6 8 7 0 1 -, 1 6, 10 0 1 6 8 6 1
6 8 7 0 1 -, 1 6, 7 0 1 5 0
8 10 7 0 7 0 1 3⅓ 5 0 7
4 6 7 0 7 0 1 5 0 11
8 5 7 0 7 0 1 5 1 1