And that the poor employed in manufactures consider this
assistance as a reason why they may spend all the wages they earn and
enjoy themselves while they can appears to be evident from the number
of families that, upon the failure of any great manufactory,
immediately fall upon the parish, when perhaps the wages earned in this
manufactory while it were sufficiently above the price of
common country labour to have allowed them to save enough for their
support till they could find some other channel for their industry.
assistance as a reason why they may spend all the wages they earn and
enjoy themselves while they can appears to be evident from the number
of families that, upon the failure of any great manufactory,
immediately fall upon the parish, when perhaps the wages earned in this
manufactory while it were sufficiently above the price of
common country labour to have allowed them to save enough for their
support till they could find some other channel for their industry.
Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population
