...them from defects in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, and from the negligence of any person in the service of their employers, together...ranks are by no means so rare as we might imagine. But the working men of the present day are much better off than the working men of twenty-seven years ago,...

...men of 1884. Many a workman of that day has now a shop or an hotel, has money in the bank or shaves in shipping or mills. Cases of rising from the ranks are by no means so rare as we might imagine. But the working men of the present day are much better off than the working men of twenty-seven years ago,...

...of 1857 have become middle-class men of 1884 . . . Cases of rising from the ranks are by no means as rare as we might imagine. But working men of the present day are much bener off than they were twenty-seven years ago, for all wages are higher. . . In 1857 a joiner got...