The Effects of Machinery on WagesS. Sonnenschein, 1892 - 143 стор. |
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Adam Smith adopted Auguste Comte auxiliary to labour Berkeley Brentano CALIFORN CALIFORNIA LIBRARY capital and labour capitalist ceteris paribus chinery Chronicle classes clear commodities Compare consider cotton demand discussed division of labour economic Economist Edited EDWARD CARPENTER effects of machinery employed employment England essay evil examine fact factory legislation fluctuations in wages Franco-German war G. J. HOLYOAKE greater important improvements industry interesting introduction of machinery invention labour and capital labour-saving LAURENCE GRONLUND MACHINERY AS AFFECTING machines males above 18 manufactured ment method Mill mobility of labour monetary money-wages morality over-production partly Political Economy power-loom present problem production Prof Professor Nicholson profits quantity of labour question remedy reward rise seems SIDNEY WEBB skill Socialism steam stocking frame supposed technical education tendency term tion trade Trades-Unions UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Wages-Fund theory workmen writers
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Сторінка 79 - We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men; — Divided into mere segments of men — broken into small fragments and crumbs of life...
Сторінка 46 - For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places: Turns the sky in the high window blank and reeling, Turns the long light that drops adown the wall, Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling, All are turning, all the day, and we with all. And all day the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, 'O ye wheels' (breaking out in a mad moaning) 'Stop!
Сторінка 105 - I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down.
Сторінка 46 - Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall, Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling, All are turning, all the day, and we with all. And all day the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, " O ye wheels " (breaking out in a mad moaning), " Stop ! be silent for to-day ! "
Сторінка 79 - And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, - — that we manufacture everything there except men ; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery ; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages. And all the evil to which that cry is urging our myriads can be met only in one way : not by teaching nor preaching,...
Сторінка 61 - It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the Wages of labour are highest.
Сторінка 46 - is very dreary ; Our young feet,' they say, ' are very weak ! Few paces have we taken, yet are weary — Our grave-rest is very far to seek.
Сторінка 116 - The industry of Great Britain, instead of being accommodated to a great number of small markets, has been principally suited to one great market Her commerce, instead of running in a great number of small channels, has been taught to run principally in one great channel.
Сторінка 143 - The Leaders of Industry, if Industry is ever to be led, are virtually the Captains of the World ; if there be no nobleness in them, there will never be an Aristocracy more.