Excerpt from Workmen and Wages at Home and Abroad, or the Effects of Strikes, Combinations, and Trades' Unions Few whose opinions are of any weight and importance will dispute the fact that, in all the leading and substantial elements of national prosperity, this country may justly claim precedency over any community, whether it be in the Old or in the New World. Yet, although we possess these rare advantages, we cannot Shut our eyes to manifest symptoms, which clearly indicate that the people - the working-classes, we ...
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Excerpt from Workmen and Wages at Home and Abroad, or the Effects of Strikes, Combinations, and Trades' Unions Few whose opinions are of any weight and importance will dispute the fact that, in all the leading and substantial elements of national prosperity, this country may justly claim precedency over any community, whether it be in the Old or in the New World. Yet, although we possess these rare advantages, we cannot Shut our eyes to manifest symptoms, which clearly indicate that the people - the working-classes, we Should perhaps say - are suffering under some acute internal disorder. To reconcile these ap parently contradictory phenomena would be almost a hopeless task; but we may possibly trace the sources whence some of our difficulties proceed, and suggest a remedy to prevent their periodic recurrence. It may turn out that our advantages have contained the main source of the evils which assail us, or that those advantages have been neutralised by some accompanying evils not sufficiently appreciated. 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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