 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1861 - 926 pages
...while in the northern, a large majority are neither hirers nor hired Men with their families — wives, sons, and daughters — work for themselves, on their...themselves, and asking no favors of capital on the ouo hand, nor of hired laborers or slaves on the other. It is not forgotten that a considerable number... | |
 | United States. Employment and Training Administration - Government publications - 1977 - 202 pages
...that in the North the majority were neither capitalists nor employees, but rather people who worked "for themselves, on their farms, in their houses and...asking no favors of capital on the one hand, nor of hirelings or slaves on the other." In the North, he continued, there was no such thing ' 'as the free... | |
 | Michael Novak - Social Science - 1984 - 316 pages
...these Free States, a large majority are neither hirers nor hired. Men, with their families — wives, sons and daughters — work for themselves, on their...asking no favors of capital on the one hand, nor of hirelings or slaves on the other . . . there is not, of necessity, any such thing as the free hired... | |
 | Eric Foner - History - 2010 - 322 pages
...man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. . . . Men, with their families . . . work for themselves on their farms, in their houses,...hand nor of hired laborers or slaves on the other." Here was a social vision already being rendered obsolete by the industrial revolution and the appearance... | |
 | Bruce Nelson - Business & Economics - 1990 - 386 pages
...independence of small producers who worked for themselves in shops and on farms, taking (in his words) "the whole product to themselves, and asking no favors of capital on the one hand, nor of hirelings and slaves on the other." On Lincoln's ideology, see Eric Foner, Politics and Ideology in... | |
 | Allan Kulikoff - Business & Economics - 1992 - 366 pages
...acquire capital through labor. Most men "are neither hirers nor hired," but work with their families, "for themselves, on their farms, in their houses and...and asking no favors of capital on the one hand, nor hirelings nor slaves on the other." Lincoln meshed systematic individualism with support for the reforms... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...these free states, a large majority are neither hirers nor hired. Men, with their families- wives, sons and daughters -work for themselves, on their farms, in their houses 299 and in their shops, taking the whole product to themselves, and asking no favors of capital on... | |
 | Paul Salstrom - Business & Economics - 1994 - 244 pages
...Lincoln set forth an economic ideal of "men with their families—wives, sons, and daughters—work[ing] for themselves, on their farms, in their houses, and...their shops taking the whole product to themselves." Lincoln argued that "many independent men, everywhere in these States, a few years back in their lives,... | |
 | Eric Foner - History - 1995 - 404 pages
...defense of free society. Most Northerners, he insisted, were "neither hirers nor hired," hut worked "for themselves, on their farms, in their houses,...and asking no favors of capital on the one hand, nor hirelings or slaves on the other." Wage earners were generally young "heginners" hired "hy their own... | |
 | Michael J. Sandel - History - 1998 - 436 pages
...least in the North, most Americans were independent in this sense: "Men, with their families — wives, sons and daughters — work for themselves, on their...asking no favors of capital on the one hand, nor of hirelings or slaves on the other. "'" Wage labor as a temporary condition on the way to independence... | |
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Men with their families — wives, sons, and daughters — work for themselves, on their farms, in their houses, and in their shops, taking the whole product to themselves, and asking no favors of capital on the one hand, nor of hired laborers or slaves... 
