The Socialism of to-day

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Identifikator:: 835096955

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28834

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Laveleye, Émile de

Title:: The Socialism of to-day

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Field & Tuer

Year of publication:: 1884

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLIV, 331 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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lOO THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. decisions shall have legal validity.—Compulsory creation of provident funds for widows, orphans, and disabled workmen. The trade corporations shall defend the interests of the work men in their relations with their employers. Prohibition of all labour on Sundays.—Prevention of the employment of children and married women in factories. The normal day of labour to be fixed according to the nature of the work. These rules ought to be made the object of international conventions. Until this has been done it is advisable to protect labour against the competition of countries where similar measures do not exist. Stringent rules against insanitary condition of factories.—State and Communal property should be worked in the interests of the labourers, and should be extended so far as can be done with economy.—A progressive income-tax, to replace the indirect taxes which fall mainly upon the labouring classes.—Heavy taxes on luxuries.—A progressive succession duty, according to the extent of the inheritance and the distance of relationship. The programme calls upon the clergy to take an active and earnest part in all efforts made for improving the lot of the labourer in its material, intellectual, moral, and religious aspects. It adjures the well-to-do classes to hold out a helping hand to the proletarians, to support all laws which are favour able to them, and to aid in augmenting their welfare by giving them good wages and reducing as far as possible the hours of labour. Every one should aid in the creation of the new trade corporations, which are destined to supply the place of what ever good there was in the ancient guilds, and should endeavour to induce the labourers to observe all honourable conduct, to shun coarse pleasures, and to put Christian sentiments into practice in their family life. It cannot be denied that the articles of this programme are inspired by the love of humanity. Hut would it be possible to apply them to the complications of modern industry without creating disorganization ? The principal proposal is the re-establishment, under another name, of the old trade-guilds. But the difficulty already pointed out immediately arises : are these to be close corporations, and are they to enjoy a mono-

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