This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... the labour movement. chapter I. the aims of labour. It is proverbially difficult to see the wood when the trees obscure it, and the casual observer of the Labour World of to-day is likely enough when he hears of the "Labour Movement" to ask, Where is it, and what is it? There are scores of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... the labour movement. chapter I. the aims of labour. It is proverbially difficult to see the wood when the trees obscure it, and the casual observer of the Labour World of to-day is likely enough when he hears of the "Labour Movement" to ask, Where is it, and what is it? There are scores of organisations, hundreds of societies, meetings, processions, denunciations, programmes, leading articles, and placards. But what unity is there? what common principle or aim? Above all, what result? A little inspection would reveal certain groupings of men and organisations. If not a "movement," certain movements, at any rate, would stand out in tolerably definite outline. In Trade Unionism, for example, with its million and a half of adherents, we have a great mass of men, agreeing upon the whole in their aims and methods, united in idea if not always in policy. Then there is the Cooperative World, with its million of members and fourteen hundred stores and societies scattered over the length and breadth of the land, yet united by its great wholesale societies and its congresses. Quite distinct from these, again, are various political and municipal organisations, working apparently on quite different lines, yet also, as they claim, in the interests of labour. If we, then, group the great powers of the Labour World after this manner, our original question becomes manageable, though it is not yet answered. Mutual understanding is not yet complete as between the actual members of these different groups, but to those who believe in the possibility of far-reaching economic reform there is no more hopeful sign than the growing recognition among them of a common aim. Time was when Trade Unionists and Co-operators looked on one another with suspicion, while...
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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 fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 450grams, ISBN: 0064929027.
