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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EVANGELICAL SOC/AL/STS. lOI poly ? For instance, are the drapers to have the sole right of manufacturing cloth? If you grant them this privilege, the master will no longer be able to recruit his staff from whatever source he chooses. What then becomes of freedom of trade ? How are these monopolies to be reconciled with the constant progress of the methods of manufacture and the varying number of workpeople required? If, on the other hand, the law maintains liberty, these trade corporations become simply the English trades unions, which are certainly powerful machines of war for organizing strikes and coalitions, but which do not contain the elements of a new organization of labour. At any rate, this programme contains one very just observation, namely, that all these measures of protection in favour of the working classes ought to be enacted as part of an international agreement Thus, England, France, and the majority of European States prohibit the labour of children in factories, while certain countries, under pretext of respecting liberty, still refuse to do so. Is it not too bad that the English and t rench manufacturers should be the victims of the equity o their country’s laws, and that others should take advantage of the inhumanity of the legislation under which they live to emp oy young children, and thus doom them to untimely infirmities in order to be able to sell cheaper than elsewhere ? tinn if f to the facility of communica- -aiSEzS: one country will cause disturbance in all the others As the mutual relations of economic interests become continually continually embrace lb. imbued with the Socialistic ideas that he had developed "Titings, wished to play the part of Emperor of the

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