Leistung und Wert

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Identifikator:: 1689791993

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-102080

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kaufmann, Paul http://d-nb.info/gnd/116074965

Title:: Leistung und Wert

Place of publication:: Würzburg

Publisher:: Memminger

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 247 Seiten; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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736 LAISSEZ FAIRE enforcement of the Acts. The general impression created by the careful investigations of Mr and Mrs Webb! is that the Act, though enforced spasmodically and occasionally with great severity, remained to a considerable extent a dead letter. The workman had on the whole been endeavouring to insist that existing laws should be carried out: and the mere fact of combination for this purpose could hardly be regarded as illegal. The Glasgow Cotton Weavers were allowed to combine to obtain a decision on the rates of wages; but their leaders were arrested as criminals, when they tried to enforce the rate themselves and organised a strike?. In various trades the practice of arranging a list at a conference between masters and men was in vogue?, and though this might have easily led to breaches of the Combi- pation Laws, it was apparently held that, where the masters were ready to meet the men in conferences publicly called, the idea of conspiracy hardly came in. There certainly were cases when the masters had a very strong case under the Acts, and did not invoke their assistance; so that it is probably true to say that, on the whole, the law was not often set in motion, and that things went on in an ordinary way, as if no such statute was in existence’. In case of any dispute between masters and men, or of a strike, the em- ployers were able to have recourse to this Act at any moment, and summarily to crush all opposition; and the severe sentences which were inflicted under the Act on Bolton Calico Printers in 1817, and on the Sheffield Scissors Grinders in 1816, must have rankled deeply in the minds of the victims. It is impossible to say to what extent the existence an intense Of the Acts, even when spasmodically enforced, affected roe rates of pay or increased the privations of the working classes, was roused- hut, there can be no doubt that they added immensely to their sense of wretchedness and helplessness. The impotence A.D. 1776 —1850. though this was not systemati- cally enforced, 1 Hist. of Trade Untonism, 58, 65. 2 See above, p. 638. 8 Lists of Prices were agreed on by the London Printers in 1805, and by the London Coopers in 1813, 1816, and 1819; by the Brushmakers in 1805, and there were strong societies among the Cabinet Makers in Edinburgh, London and Dublin. Webb, op. cit. 66—68. 4 See above, p. 642 n. 5 See the quotation from George White in Webb, op. cit. 68.

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