standard of comfort
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It is not then precisely with the "standard of comfort" of male and female workers that we are concerned.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
In other words, a "bare subsistence wage" does not gain by a fall in the price of the articles which belong to its standard of comfort.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
"Pitch your standard of comfort high, and your income will look after itself," is scarcely an unfair description of the rule of prudent imprudence they inculcated on working people.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
By keeping up the standard of comfort among the poor themselves; 2.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
That the poor could thus become fastidious was a good sign of the rising standard of comfort.
From Mediaeval Socialism by Jarrett, Bede
