Excerpt from Modern Social Movements: Descriptive Summaries and Bibliographies The labor movement, in all its phases, has attained such proportions in modern civilization, that interest in it is no longer confined to its membership and a few curious students. The following pages bear eloquent witness to this fact. The range of labor activities, the power of labor in European councils, to say nothing of the Russian experiment, and the strength of trade unionism in industries are forced upon the attention of the public at ...
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Excerpt from Modern Social Movements: Descriptive Summaries and Bibliographies The labor movement, in all its phases, has attained such proportions in modern civilization, that interest in it is no longer confined to its membership and a few curious students. The following pages bear eloquent witness to this fact. The range of labor activities, the power of labor in European councils, to say nothing of the Russian experiment, and the strength of trade unionism in industries are forced upon the attention of the public at large by the headlines and editorials of the daily press. There are, of course, ups and downs in the labor movement as in most other human undertakings. The unions in particular trades rise, flourish, and decay or are transformed. Labor parties appear and disappear. But the labor movement, broadly conceived, gains momentum each decade. The membership of trade unions, marked, it is true, by fluctuations, shows a gen eral trend upward. The capital and membership of cooperative societies increase from year to year. Political parties appealing to labor and sustained by it have, within the last twenty-five years, enlarged the sphere of their direct and indirect influence in the affairs of state. The phrase industrial democracy has become a slogan likely to be as significant in the twentieth century as the term political democracy was in the nineteenth century. The collectivist drift in legislation and administration has swept all governments away from their ancient moorings. Every thoughtful person is speculating upon the future. 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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