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2. § 3.

   Certain rare circumstances excepted, high wages imply restraints on population ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   427

3. 4.

   —which are in some cases legal ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   431

4. 5.

   —in others the effect of particular customs ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   434

5. 6.

   Due restriction of population the only safeguard of a labouring class ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   436

6.  

   Chapter XII. Of Popular Remedies for Low Wages.

7. § 1.

   A legal or customary minimum of wages, with a guarantee of employment ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   441

8. 2.

   —would require as a condition, legal measures for repression of population ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   443

9. 3.

   Allowances in aid of wages ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   448

10. 4.

    The Allotment System ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    450

11.  

    Chapter XIII. Remedies for Low Wages further considered.

12. § 1.

    Pernicious direction of public opinion on the subject of population ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    456

13. 2.

    Grounds for expecting improvement ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    459

14. 3.

    Twofold means of elevating the habits of the labouring people: by education ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    465

15. 4.

    —and by large measures of immediate relief, through foreign and home colonization ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    467

16.  

    Chapter XIV. Of the Differences of Wages in different Employments.

17. § 1.

    Differences of wages arising from different degrees of attractiveness in different employments ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    471

18. 2.

    Differences arising from natural monopolies ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    477

19. 3.

    Effect on wages of a class of subsidized competitors ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    482

20. 4.

    —of the competition of persons with independent means of support ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    485

21. 5.

    Wages of women, why lower than those of men ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    490

22. 6.

    Differences of wages arising from restrictive laws, and from combinations ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    491

23. 7.

    Cases in which wages are fixed by custom ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    493