The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-earnersYale University Press, 1921 - 279 стор. |
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... tion of 1349 , directing that no laborer should de- mand and no employer should pay greater wages than those customary before the plague . early attempt to outmaneuver an economic law by a legal device was only the prelude to a long ...
... tion of 1349 , directing that no laborer should de- mand and no employer should pay greater wages than those customary before the plague . early attempt to outmaneuver an economic law by a legal device was only the prelude to a long ...
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... tion . They had ceased to be journeymen con- trolling in some measure their activities : they were now merely wage - earners . As the realization of し this adverse change came over them , they began THE BACKGROUND 13.
... tion . They had ceased to be journeymen con- trolling in some measure their activities : they were now merely wage - earners . As the realization of し this adverse change came over them , they began THE BACKGROUND 13.
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... tion . Within a decade wages rose fifty per cent , and John Jay in 1784 writes of the " wages of me- chanics and laborers " as " very extravagant . " Though the industries were small and depended on a local market within a circumscribed ...
... tion . Within a decade wages rose fifty per cent , and John Jay in 1784 writes of the " wages of me- chanics and laborers " as " very extravagant . " Though the industries were small and depended on a local market within a circumscribed ...
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... tion . And above all political issues loomed the Bank , the monopoly that became the laborer's bugaboo and Andrew Jackson's opportunity to rally to his side the newly enfranchised mechanics . So the old days of semi - colonial composure ...
... tion . And above all political issues loomed the Bank , the monopoly that became the laborer's bugaboo and Andrew Jackson's opportunity to rally to his side the newly enfranchised mechanics . So the old days of semi - colonial composure ...
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... tion of industry . " We must proceed from com- bined stores to combined shops , from combined shops to combined homes , to joint ownership in God's earth , the foundation that our edifice must stand upon . " In this ambitious spirit ...
... tion of industry . " We must proceed from com- bined stores to combined shops , from combined shops to combined homes , to joint ownership in God's earth , the foundation that our edifice must stand upon . " In this ambitious spirit ...
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The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth Повний перегляд - 1921 |
The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth Повний перегляд - 1921 |
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Сторінка 24 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Сторінка 195 - The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.
Сторінка 234 - That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world...
Сторінка 269 - Plumbers was settled by an amalgamation called the United Association of Journeymen Plumbers, Gas Fitters, Steam Fitters, and Steam Fitters' Helpers, which is now affiliated with the Federation.
Сторінка 75 - When bad men combine, the good must associate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Сторінка 118 - We have no ultimate ends. We are going on from day to day. We are fighting only for immediate objects — objects that can be realized in a few years.
Сторінка 4 - ... divided into small enclosures from two acres to six or seven each, seldom more, every three or four pieces of land had an house belonging to them.
Сторінка 145 - The suggestion, however, grows out of a profound conviction that the food and clothing of our people, the industries and the general welfare of the nation...
Сторінка 190 - Every union should have a rifle club. I strongly advise you to provide every member with the latest improved rifle, which can be obtained from the factory at a nominal price.
Сторінка 45 - The operatives work thirteen hours a day in the summer time, and from daylight to dark in the winter. At half past four in the morning the factory bell rings, and at five the girls must be in the mills. A clerk, placed as a watch, observes those who are a few minutes behind the time, and effectual means are taken to stimulate to punctuality.
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