At the Works: A Study of a Manufacturing Town (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Lady Bell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330520807 ISBN 13 : 9781330520802

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from At the Works: A Study of a Manufacturing Town

This is the only medium in which we can actually see, handle, realize the great generalizations. We cannot visualize the Nation, let us say, in any other way. It may, indeed, mean something definite to our minds, some great Spirit of conduct, a great idea held in common with millions of other people, a name which stands for a purpose, for an object, for a reason, for a nucleus: but we cannot come into personal contact with that idea, although we may think of it and talk about it.

The trade of the nation - what is that? It is only a word, a name. The real trade is, and must be, the trade of individuals.

We read nowadays in every paper discussions as to the best methods of increasing this or that one of our national industries, and in another part of the same paper we may find columns of equally earnest, anxious discussions respecting the deterioration of our race. We are apt to believe that deterioration is likely to be lessened as prosperity increases. But experience does not always bear out this theory.

It may be Open to question whether what is called Prosperity is more likely to prevent deterioration or actually to promote it whether the very conditions, indeed, arising from good times in commerce, the increasing number of workers who rush to a given place and struggle to live within a given area, do not inevitably make for deterioration at the same time. The conditions of prosperity are no more necessarily beneficial or agreeable to the people whose work is promoting it than the long sea voyage prescribed for the rest and enjoyment of the man who is well-to-do is necessarily beneficial and agreeable to the stoker who is toiling and panting below.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330520807
• ISBN 13: 9781330520802
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
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