This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...men have been described, I cannot help drawing attention to one or two interesting facts revealed by this report. It shows us that whilst we are complaining in England of our trade and manufactures being injured by continental competition, arising, as our large manufacturers constantly tell us, from the lower scale of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...men have been described, I cannot help drawing attention to one or two interesting facts revealed by this report. It shows us that whilst we are complaining in England of our trade and manufactures being injured by continental competition, arising, as our large manufacturers constantly tell us, from the lower scale of wages abroad, a cry is raised in Germany, that the continental manufacturers are being ruined by English competition; and that complaint comes, not from the employers o labour, whose interest it might be to circulate such a report, but from the working men themselves, who propose as remedies, emigration and the "establishment of a comparatively equal scale of wages all over the world." This is one startling fact. Another is that whilst the working men of England have been seeking to induce their comrades abroad to establish unions and raise their wages, so as to prevent the importation of continental artisans as "supplanters" in case of a strike here, such a line of policy is quite at variance with the interests of foreign workmen, whose cause will be far better promoted by emigration to England whenever the higher rate of wages will admit of it. They naturally desire, and let me at once add the opinion, that they, as well as our own workmen, deserve and require higher wages, but those are not to be obtained without The Labour Question Abroad and at Home. 59 Programm und Statuten des Teutschen AuswanderungaeVerein: Miinchen, 1867. relieving the labour market; and although emigration to America is one of the means adopted, we may be sure that continued emigration to England will be another. The greater, too, they find their intellectual powers to become, the more desirous will the foreign workmen be to emigrate to this count...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 350grams, ISBN:
