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administration advantage annual average Beatrice Webb Beth Din Board of Guardians capital capitalist co-operation co-operative Committee competition demoralisation earn East End East London economic equilibrium economic rent economists effect Eight Hours Bill eight hours day employed employer employment England equal evils existing Fabian Fabian Society fact Factory Acts Factory legislation favour girls Government hand hours of labour increase individual Individualist Industrial Democracy inequality inevitably instance Jewish Jews Lancashire land last increment law of rent less lower machinery male manufacturing margin of cultivation ment mills occupation organisation outdoor relief paupers pension persons piece-work rates Poor Law relief practically present principles production profits proposal rate of wages reform regard regulation rent of ability result School self-governing workshop skill social Socialist society standard statistics sweating system tion to-day Trade Union trade unionists wage-earners weavers week whole woman women workers workhouse
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Page 224 - destroyed the faith of the world in the validity of these principles as the basis of even a decent social order, and Mr. John Morley himself has told us* that ' the answer of modern statesmanship is that unfettered individual competition is not a principle to which the regulation of industry may be entrusted.'
Page 102 - preparing the exposition of political economy that was to reign all through the next generation—only law can afford to every individual a guarantee that his competitors will pursue the same course as to hours of labour and so forth, without which he cannot safely adopt it himself. 1
Page 116 - somewhat of a novelty, the draft clause is given in full:— Where it is proved to the satisfaction of a Secretary of State that a majority of the persons employed throughout the United Kingdom in any one trade or occupation are in favour of the maximum hours of labour per week
Page 225 - only partly conscious of itself, that social health and consequently human happiness is something apart from and above the separate interests of individuals, requiring to be consciously pursued as an end in itself; that the lesson of evolution in social development is the substitution of consciously regulated co-ordination among the units of each organism for their internecine competition
Page 161 - exclusively in the deaths in workhouses and workhouse infirmaries. Considering that comparatively few of the deaths are those of children, it is probable that one in every three London adults will be driven into these refuges to die, and the proportion in the case of the ' manual labour class
Page 231 - skilled or unskilled, can never rise much above its present level.' THE ' POPULATION QUESTION ' Neither can we say that it is the increase of population which effects this result. During the present century, indeed, in spite of an unparalleled increase in numbers, the wealth annually produced in England per head has nearly doubled.
Page 98 - Mr. Greville wrote in his diary :— I never remember so much excitement as has been caused by Ashley's Ten Hours Bill, nor a more curious political state of things— such intermingling of parties, such a confusion of opposition.
Page 100 - has received the heartiest possible endorsement by statesmen and economists of every school. Jevons asserts that 'this Consolidation Act is one of the brightest achievements of legislation in this or any other country." * The Duke of Argyll has summed up, in his Reign of Law,
Page 224 - It is indeed certain,' sums up Dr. Ingram, at the end of his comprehensive survey of all the economic tendencies, ' that industrial society will not permanently remain without a systematic organisation. The mere conflict of private interests will never produce a well-ordered commonwealth of labour.
Page 222 - unconscious, acceptance by political administrators. Thus, it is the constant flux of things which underlies all the 'difficulties' of Individualism. Whatever we may think of the existing social order, one thing is certain— namely, that it will undergo modification in the future as certainly and