[40] Hearth-money was a tax upon houses according to the number of chimneys, at the rate of two shillings a chimney, for every house having more than two chimneys.

[41] See the passage in Dunoyer, 'Liberté du Travail,' tom. i. p. 416.

[42] Sir John M'Neill's 'Report on Free and Pauper Colonies in Holland.' 1853.

[43] Morison, 'Labour and Capital,' Appendix B.

[44] Chronicon Preciosum, 1745, p. 136.

[45] Morison, 'Labour and Capital,' p. 24.


CHAPTER XXV.

What political economy teaches—Skilled labour and trusted labour—Competition of unskilled labour—Competition of uncapitalled labour—Itinerant traders—The contrast of organised industry—Factory-labour and garret-labour—Communism—Proposals for state organisation of labour—Social publishing establishment—Practical co-operation.