Industrial Reconstruction: A Symposium on the Situation After the War and how to Meet it

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Huntly Carter
T. F. Unwin, 1917 - 295 Seiten

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Seite 24 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them 15 happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do.
Seite 9 - In proportion to the increase of capital, the absolute share of the total product falling to the capitalist is augmented, %and his relative share is diminished ; while, on the contrary, the laborer's share is increased both absolutely and relatively.
Seite 81 - ... to agree to put their businesses on a new footing, by admitting the workmen to some participation, not in profits but in control...
Seite 152 - Higgins considers that in order to stop this running-down process 'a big push' is needed 'not only from the economic point of view but also from the sociological and political viewpoint as well
Seite 46 - ... clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, while the laborer is fed with the crumbs which fall from the table of the rich.
Seite 162 - ... Syndicalism, or the control of industry by the trade unions ; and National Guilds, or joint control of industry by the guilds and the State, are as far off as ever, if not farther off than ever. Instead, we have, at any rate, the beginnings of a new industrial system, properly to be called State Capitalism, under which private capitalism and profiteering continue with the moral and physical support of the State.
Seite 200 - They submitted a memorandum to the National Federation of Building Trades employers of Great Britain and Ireland, proposing a "National Industrial Parliament for the Building Industry.
Seite 94 - Unless a special effort is made, the total national output (and consequently the national income) will be smaller than before the War. Out of the total national dividend a large slice of wealth will be required for repairs and reconstruction, which will not at once bear consumable fruit. Though labour will be in demand, the demand for capital will be still greater, and a...
Seite 165 - The development of trade unionism towards the Guilds must therefore take the form, not of the acceptance of joint responsibility for the conduct of industry by the trade unions, but of increasing interference by them in the conduct of industry. Where a whole province of industrial management can be taken bodily out of the hands of the employers and transferred to the workers...
Seite 35 - We shall get no real progress until you can demonstrate to the working classes as a body that their individual and collective interest lies in more efficient production.

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