Finanzen und Steuern im In- und Ausland

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Identifikator:: 1823190766

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-220010

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Finanzen und Steuern im In- und Ausland

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Hobbing

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 896 S; graph. Darst.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Erster Hauptteil. Deutsche Finanz- und Steuerstatistik

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512 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM anworthy persons” who only made it an excuse for levying money?; while the clothiers desired to be free to see to the business of dressing cloth themselves? There was a conflict between the capitalists and the Company, the members of which were sinking to the position of wage-earners’, and to a lowered social status, and less secure standard of life. It is highly probable that some of the Companies which survived, came to discharge functions which were closely analogous to those of modern Trade Unions. There are some cases in which the differentiation of an smploying class was apparently due to the success of the capitalist in exercising supervision wisely. The London felt-makers¢ insisted that all work must be done under the direct observation of the master, and set their faces against the weighing out of stuff by employers, to be made up at the worker's home. This policy appears to have commended itself to the journeymen also, in the face of the competition jo which they were exposed by the French immigrants, and the trade continued to prosper on these new lines, The Felt- makers’ Company seems to have changed in character during the period after the Restoration, and to have become a body of capitalist employers, rather than an association of small masters; while during the same period an active organisa- tion had come into existence among the men, which had pursued a policy very similar to that which has been generally adopted by nineteenth century Trade Unions. The possession of material, and ability in supervision, aswell as combined to bring about the rise of an employing class in ariong fe the tailoring trade. In rural districts, the tailor continued to rise of mn Visit the houses of his clients and to work upon the materials they furnished; but in London, the customers preferred to deal with a man who had a stock of materials. They had the advantage of a larger choice of goods, and the head of such a business would acquire special skill in cutting and a knowledge of prevailing fashions. The differentiation of the employer from the employed was almost inevitable; it 18. P.D. J. L cxu. 64. 2 8. P.D. J.L cxm. 63. 3 The clothiers of Ipswich appear to have been employing cloth-workers in 1639. 8. P.D. C. I. ccccxxv, 40, also cccexxvi. 44, 45. 4 Compare the interesting article by Mr G. Unwin on 4 Seventeenth Ceniury Trade Union, in the Economic Journal, x. 398. among the felt- makers. In this calling

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