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Excerpt from A Glance at the Wages Question in England
Very sanguine people still imagine that some day or other our system Of government will be perfected, and that, as party politics sink into the background, a feeling of mutual interdependence and a consciousness of common aims - both absolutely essential to the progressive vigour of any society - will Spring up in all members of the commonwealth. National life of this description would every day become less of a dream and more of a reality, if questions Of an entirely different stamp did not again threaten its destruction. The first and foremost of these social problems deals with the manifold relations subsisting between Labour and Capital. From those very lands which make loudest boast of their civilisation, we hear of the frequent disputes of workmen with their employers, and of employers with their workmen, sometimes carried on within the limits allowed by law, sometimes involving scenes disgraceful to brutes and savages, but always, whatever be their results, leaving an immense amount of ill-will behind them, and impoverishing more or less both parties engaged in the struggle. All countries in which manufactures flourish to a considerable extent have had ample experience of these disputes but England has the ill luck to be exceptionally liable to them, since, contrary to the system of agriculture elsewhere pursued, few of our farm labourers have any part or parcel in the land they till or the cattle they tend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
