10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HODMEN»
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hodmen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hodmen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Human/nature: Biology, Culture, and Environmental History
You are nothing but the unconscious hodmen of the men of ideas."7 Chase's "
hodmen" metaphor recalls Worster's herd and Schiff's mob; each is similar but
each takes a slightly different view of the human nature of this familiar but
incredibly ...
John P. Herron, Andrew G. Kirk,
1999
2
The Rise and Decline of Holland's Economy: Merchant ...
Consequently, in this chapter, only the wages of construction workers (carpenters
, masons and hodmen) can be studied. It must be assumed that the wages of
other groups of workers were approximately as high and that they developed
along ...
3
Modernisation and Tradition: European Local and Manorial ...
hodmen. Manor archives hold documents which illuminate how building was
practised on the Scanian domains during the nineteenth century. Even if the
above-mentioned literature in principle was intended to stimulate all categories of
...
Kerstin Sundberg, Tomas Germundsson, Kjell Hansen,
2004
4
Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with ...
Truly they are hodmen, with this further evil about them, that they never seem so
happy as when, in their function of hodmen, they are helping to build some new
Tower of Babel. THE ANATOMY OF FUNERALS. A man's funeral may be morally
...
Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold,
1859
5
The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold: Collected and ...
In speaking of the classes of men from which the Irish priesthood are chosen,
they have been called hodmen. ... that they never seem so happy as when, in
their function of hodmen, they are helping to build some new Tower of Babel.
Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold,
1859
6
The Economic Future in Historical Perspective
In order to assess the speed of the creation of a single Italian labour market after
monetary unification, we estimated the CVs of nominal hourly wages for skilled (
master masons) and unskilled (hodmen) labour, for each individual year, ...
Paul A. David, Mark Thomas,
2006
7
Wages or the Whip. An essay on the comparative cost and ...
Some of these Africans were employed by me from time to time as hodmen, while
others, both male and female, lived in my immediate neighbourhood; and this
gave me an opportunity of discovering pe'rsonally their industry, the avidity with ...
Josiah CONDER (Editor of “The Patriot.”.),
1833
8
A Stagnating Metropolis: The Economy and Demography of ...
The Stockholm material presents wages paid day by day and week by week for
several categories of labourer receiving a pure cash wage.6 In order to facilitate
international comparison only the unskilled, the hodmen, are dealt with.
Johan Soderberg, Ulf Jonsson, Christer Persson,
2003
9
Clash of Crowns: William the Conqueror, Richard Lionheart, ...
duration, the huge amounts recorded in the Rolls of the Norman Ex— chequer—
such as the almost £10,000 Angevin paid to the hodmen and water carriers—had
to have been divided among an enormous number of men. Add to these the ...
10
Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism
The hoisting of large buildings may be done by machinery: I am now doing the
new Custom-house in this way; but for small buildings the expense would be too
great, and the labour of hodmen is indispensable.21 As he moved between the ...