Socialism and National Minimum, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mrs. Sidney Webb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331477883 ISBN 13: 9781331477884

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

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Excerpt from Socialism and National Minimum, Vol. 6 The Need for Regulation. - It is well to begin this little book with a warning. When Modern Factory Legislation was introduced a hundred years ago, women did not concern themselves with such matters. Men did; and it is possible to prove, by the experience of a century, that they began, with the best intentions, by making every mistake that could possibly be made on the subject. Now, the women of to-day are no cleverer than the men of that time. The sole advantage they have over the men of the eighteenth century is their knowledge of what has happened during the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, some of the politically active women of to-day have not acquired that knowledge - do not even know that it is available. They are arguing exactly as the men of their class argued when they, too, had no experience to guide them. Accordingly they are making the same mistakes, and laying down the same Nihilistic "laws," with the same good intentions, and the same high-minded anxiety to secure, for every working woman, the personal liberty of a householder with at least three servants. My warning is, then, to form no conclusion until you know the facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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Excerpt from Socialism and National Minimum, Vol. 6

All these arguments against Factory Legislation are as self-evident to the ordinary man and woman of the upper or middle class as the statement that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west is to the man in the street. But exactly as our faith in the Ptolemaic system of the Uni verse has been shattered by a more accurate observation of facts and by unravelling the connections between these facts, so has our faith in the good results of free compe tition in the labour market been destroyed by a more intimate knowledge of the life and labour of our working people, and by a careful analysis of the actual process of bargaining between employer and wage-earner.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1331477883
• ISBN 13: 9781331477884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100