Excerpt from Workers on Their Industries The fourteen essays contained in this volume were originally delivered as a course Of lectures on Industries, at South Place Institute, on Sunday afternoons during the winter of 1893-4. Ten of them, from which the volume derives its title, are the work of men and women who are, or until recently were, actually engaged in earning a livelihood at the trade here described by them. Most of them are prominent as leaders and advisers Of their fellow-workers, and are thus qualified to ...
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Excerpt from Workers on Their Industries The fourteen essays contained in this volume were originally delivered as a course Of lectures on Industries, at South Place Institute, on Sunday afternoons during the winter of 1893-4. Ten of them, from which the volume derives its title, are the work of men and women who are, or until recently were, actually engaged in earning a livelihood at the trade here described by them. Most of them are prominent as leaders and advisers Of their fellow-workers, and are thus qualified to speak about their trade, not only as practical workers and as Trade Unionists, but to some extent at any rate as the representa tives of the feelings and aspirations Of all those engaged in the industries they describe. Of the four other essays, three are upon more general subjects, all, however, relating to some aspect of current labour problems, and by writers well qualified to deal with the various questions. The fourth, that upon the Agri cultural Labourer, is the work Of an expert outsider to the trade. It was found impossible to secure the services of one actually engaged in that calling to speak upon it, and hence the necessity of departing from the general rule Observed in the other lectures upon specific industries. A syllabus was prepared for the lecturers, giving a brief indication Of the general lines upon which it was thought that the subjects might be most usefully ap proached. Needless to say, however, no rigid adherence to its suggestions was expected or enforced, and it will therefore be found that while in some cases the writers have devoted much of their time and space to one side Of their subject, in others the chief stress has been laid upon quite different aspects. 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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