Excerpt from Industry and Trade: A Study of Industrial Technique and Business Organization, and of Their Influences on the Conditions of Various Classes and Nations In pursuit of the latter aim I made it a practice to ask what pay was being earned by each class of operatives, whom I passed. Afterwards I asked to be allowed to guess in every case. If my guess was right within a shilling or two a week, I passed on. If not, I asked for explanation; and I almost always found that the reason lay in a cause, sometimes technical, ...
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Excerpt from Industry and Trade: A Study of Industrial Technique and Business Organization, and of Their Influences on the Conditions of Various Classes and Nations In pursuit of the latter aim I made it a practice to ask what pay was being earned by each class of operatives, whom I passed. Afterwards I asked to be allowed to guess in every case. If my guess was right within a shilling or two a week, I passed on. If not, I asked for explanation; and I almost always found that the reason lay in a cause, sometimes technical, sometimes relating to special conditions of the workers in question, which I did not know. The result was a conviction that inequalities of pay were less arbitrary than was often asserted, and were more directly under the influence of broad natural causes. But I believed that the causes of these causes were not wholly beyond human control; and that they might probably be so modified as to bring about a nearer approach to equality of conditions, and a better use of the products of human effort for the benefit of humanity. I developed a tendency to socialism; which was fortified later on by Mill's essays in the Fortnightly Review in 1879. Thus for more than a decade, I remained under the conviction that the suggestions, which are associated with the word socialism, were the most important subject of study, if not in the world, yet at all events for me. But the writings of socialists generally repelled me, almost as much as they attracted me; because they seemed far out of touch with realities: and, partly for that reason, I decided to say little on the matter, till I had thought much longer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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