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of food ,, cleanly apartments , baths , warmth , society , music , dancing , gardens , and perfect freedom of action . Who could desire more ? And all this at a cheaper rate than it could be procured
in any other mode . Every different department of labour could be committed to a single individual as a responsible contractor , giving security for the fulfilment of his undertaking . For instance , the cook or restaurateur , after certificates of his competency , should be chosen for the superior cheapness of his offers . A list of dishes should be made out , and he who offered to contract for the lowest prices , should obtain the situation . He would , of course , be answerable for the quality of his provisions ; and he would find and control
his own waiters . In fact , he would be simply a contracting tradesman . The baker should have the same terms . The washerwoman , the same ; the shoe-cleaner , the same ; the clothes-maker , the same ; a gardener , the same terms ; the bathman , the same . And it might be worth while , in a larger establishment , to have a chambermaid , with bed and table linen , towels , &c , on the same terms . All these people should be under the control of the
proprietor , as to their dealings with the purveyors of food , in order to supply a good quality , but they should be liable to be dismissed , on a committee of the inhabitants expressing their dissatisfaction . An engineer and a carpenter would , of course , be
maintained on the establishment by the proprietor , in order to keep all in repair . The cook would be enabled to gain a profit on the provisioning of three hundred people . Twenty shillings per head would enable him to pay all his subordinates , and retain an ample living . The baker , and all the other tradesmen oc workmen , would be in the same condition . It must be
remembered , that the certainty of a given amount of custom always encourages a man to work cheaper than a larger amount of an uncertain connexion . The cookshop-keeper sells his meat at fift y per cent , beyond what would yield him a profit , in order to cover the loss arising from uncertainty , and the consequent spoiling of his meat . The porter also who plies in the street charges at a high rate for his occupied time , in order to maintain himself when he is not occupied . In such an establishment as I propose , the demand would be constant , and all would be purchased at the first houses , on account of the quantity , and those who merely laboured would , in the certainty of employment , be enabled to do it cheaper , on account of' constant work . The boots' would be satisfied with sixpence per week , instead of three-pence per day , when his customers were secured to him , and nis labour lessened b y the engine ; and the washerwoman in the same proportion . The landlords of inns would willingly lower their prices one-half , but they are obliged to pay rent all the year round , and they must make the living part of the year pay for the dead ; and it is always the case
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£ > 80 Housebuilding and Housekeeping .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 580, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/50/
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