The Claims of Labour: A Course of Lectures Delivered in Scotland in the Summer of 1886, on Various Aspects of the Labour PorblemEdinburgh Co-Operative Print. Company, 1886 - 275 páginas |
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Página 62 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest perhaps...
Página 189 - Davis's popularity, we can confidently look forward to the inevitable ebb, when 'the old order changeth, yielding place to new . . . lest one good custom should corrupt the world'.
Página 63 - ... which their own industry produces ; looking quietly on while they see the fruits of all their labour spent or spoiled ; and if one of the number take or touch a particle of the hoard, the others joining against him, and hanging him for the theft. There must be some very important advantages to account for an institution which, in the view of it above given, is so paradoxical and unnatural.
Página 48 - Eventually, and in perhaps a less remote future than may be supposed, we may, through the Co-operative principle, see our way to a change in society which would combine the freedom and independence of the individual with the moral, intellectual, and economical advantages of aggregate production...
Página 129 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Página 63 - ... getting nothing for themselves all the while, but a little of the coarsest of the provision, which their own industry produces; looking quietly o'n, while they see the fruits of all their...
Página 48 - ... a change in society, which would combine the freedom and independence of the individual, with the moral, intellectual, and economical advantages of aggregate production ; and which, without violence or spoliation, or even any sudden disturbance of existing habits and expectations, would realize, at least in the industrial department, the best aspirations of the democratic spirit, by putting an end to the division of society into the industrious and the idle, and effacing all social distinctions...
Página 183 - Thus would be minimized the danger of the community falling into bureaucracy, the multiplication of boards and offices, and all the paraphernalia of official authority, which is after all a burden, even when it is exercised by the delegation of the whole people and in accordance with their wishes.
Página 202 - If the science of political economy is to be of any practical value, its expounders ought to try and find out some means whereby these frequent fluctuations can be avoided, instead of which they only teach men how to increase them by declaring that wages must be dependent on the variations of
Página 170 - ... privilege. A great many of them, though they are engaged in the war, sit at home at ease, and let their generals, their salaried managers to wit, wage it for them — I am meaning here shareholders, or sleeping-partners — but whenever they are active in business they are really engaged in organizing the war with their competitors, the capitalists in the same line of business as themselves ; and if they are to be successful in that war they must not be sparing of destruction, either of their...