Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... ON INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIPS. i. Present Evils. Ii. Boards of Arbitration and Conciliation. ill. Trades Union Commissioners' Report. IV. Messrs. Briggs' Industrial Partnership. v. Messrs. Pox, Head & Co.'s Partnership. vi. Summary of their Scheme. vil. Mr. Babbage's Proposal of the Partnership Principle. Viii. Advantages and Difficulties of the System. ix. True Principles of Co-operation. x. Circumstances Limiting its Application, xi. Probable Effects upon tho Working-classes. xn. Concluding Remarks. It was with great pleasure that I undertook to prepare tho present lecture, because I have become more and more convinced of the extreme importance of the Industrial Partnership principle to the peace and well-being of the kingdom. The seeming novelty of the proposition, that workmen should become sharers in their master's profits, causes many persons to stigmatise the idea as impracticable, unsound, and opposed to experience. But I believe that the unsoundness is all in the present state of things, and that experience is not against the novelty but in its favour. For can any one truly say that experience is in favour of the present relations of capital and labour? Does not A lecture delivered under the auspices of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, April 5th, 1870. every one feel that there is an evil at work which needs a remedy? Does not the constant occurrence of strikes, and the rise of vast and powerful organisations of workmen, show that there is some profound unfitness in the present customs of the country to the progress of affairs? Bacon tells us that it is not good to try experiments in states, and that "we should stand upon the ancient ways;" but he adds," unless the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident,"--and with...
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About the Author
W. Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) was one of the first great virtuoso scholars in economics. He was author of Theory of Political Economy; The Coal Question; Money and the Mechanism of Exchange; Pure Logic, or the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity; The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method; and Methods of Social Reform and Other Papers.
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