The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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The power of labour 8 shown in the Wa nolicies of bingland her rolonies. md in the Tevelop- ment of Trade Tnions. Friendly. and Co- Iperative Nacactiee 380 POSTSCRIPT generally thought that if attention is given to the interests of capital, those of labour will also be saved indirectly, but none the less really and in the best way. Unlike as Russia, Germany, and America are in many ways, they are similar to one another and distinguished from England by this common feature, that in all of them labour is still struggling for primary consideration at the hands of the government. It is not yet secure in the enjoyment of the power of association to attend to its own interest, and is apt, from a sense of official want of sympathy, to ally itself with the socialist and anarchist opposition to the established order. It is not a little curious to notice that, in the different rircumstances of the mother-country and the colonies, the same cause, the dominance of labour, has brought about an spposite influence to bear on economic policy. In England she working classes have become firmly attached to the free rade principles which tell in favour of cheap food to the con- sumer; in Victoria and some other colonies, they are more inclined to adopt a policy which favours producers. But the power of this factor in national life is shown, not only in the ‘rend of legislation, but in the character and work of the asso- rations of English working men. In various ways they have sontributed to the maintenance of a high standard of comfort. This has been the direct object of Trade Unions, and whether *heir existence has been a contributing cause or not, there san be little doubt that the working classes generally, and the skilled artisans in particular, have attained to a much greater command over the comforts and conveniences of life shan they formerly enjoyed. Friendly Societies continue to Jourish and to guard their members against the risk of being submerged through the loss of health or other unforeseen occurrences. In addition, by means of the Co-operative movement, the poor consumer has been able to bring effective supervision to bear on the quality and price of the goods supplied to him. The guarantee which the Assize of Bread and Ale were supposed to afford can be much more completely brought gnto operation, and at far less cost, by the agency of these great trading bodies. On all these sides a remarkable system of self-help has been organised, and the labourer has

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