To check workers from flocking in from their regular employments, he insisted on the wages being kept below the ordinary rate, and he urged the propriety of driving as sharp bargains as possible in fixing the price of the piece of work.
Morley describes Turgot's strategy to control labor costs by keeping wages low to prevent worker influx.
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We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
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