The Labor Movement: Its Conservative Functions and Social, ConsequencesPutnam, 1921 - 259 стор. |
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The Labor Movement: Its Conservative Functions and Social, Consequences Frank Tannenbaum Повний перегляд - 1921 |
The Labor Movement: Its Conservative Functions and Social, Consequences Frank Tannenbaum Повний перегляд - 1921 |
The Labor Movement: Its Conservative Functions and Social, Consequences Frank Tannenbaum Повний перегляд - 1921 |
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Сторінка 193 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property necessarily carried with it as a consequence, that the produce of labour should be apportioned as we now see it, almost in an inverse ratio to the labour...
Сторінка 193 - ... in a descending scale, the remuneration dwindling as the work grows harder and more disagreeable, until the most fatiguing and exhausting bodily labour cannot count with certainty on being able to earn even the necessaries of life; if this, or Communism, were the alternative, all the difficulties, great or small, of Communism would be but as dust in the balance.
Сторінка 193 - The objection ordinarily made to a system of community of property and equal distribution of the produce, that each person would be incessantly occupied in evading his fair share of the work, points, undoubtedly, to a real difficulty. But those who urge this objection, forget to how great an extent the same difficulty exists under the system on which nine-tenths of the business of society is now conducted. The objection supposes, that honest and efficient labour is only to be had from those who are...
Сторінка 193 - ... the largest portions to those who have never worked at all, the next largest to those whose work is almost nominal, and so in a descending scale, the remuneration dwindling as the work grows harder and more disagreeable, until the most fatiguing and exhausting bodily...
Сторінка 60 - She is one of the best workers we have," the superintendent was saying. We moved closer and glanced at her face. Then we saw a strange contrast. The hands were swift, precise, intelligent. The face was stolid, vague, vacant "It took a long time to pound the idea into her head," the superintendent continued; " but when this grade of woman once absorbs an idea she holds it.
Сторінка xi - To perceive this fact is to abolish j rigid dogmas from the world. It is to recognize that conceptions, theories and systems of thought are always open to development through use. It is to enforce the lesson that we must be on the lookout quite as much for indications to alter them as for opportunities to assert them.
Сторінка 59 - A month ago we stood with a superintendent in a room of the canning department. Down both sides of a long table stood twenty immigrant women, most of them visibly middle aged and mothers. 'Look at that Slovak woman,
Сторінка 126 - World proclaims that in organizing along industrial lines the labor movement is "building the structure of a new society within the shell of the old.
Сторінка 193 - Irish reaper or hodman to the chief justice or the minister of state, nearly all the work of society is remunerated by day wages or fixed salaries. A factory operative has less personal interest in his work than a member of a Communist association, since he is not, like him, working for a...
Сторінка 12 - The demand for labour is thus in a state of perpetual flux and reconstruction both as to quality and as to quantity. Men who for years have satisfied the demand in one form may find the form suddenly changed; their niche in industry broken up; their hard-won skill superfluous in a new world; themselves also superfluous unless they will and can learn fresh arts and find the way into unfamiliar occupations.