Democracy and Liberty. William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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СКАЧАТЬ href="#litres_trial_promo">Proposed extension of the industrial functions of municipalities

       Bellamy’s ‘Looking Backward’

       Fallacies that underlie such utopias

       Socialism incompatible with free trade and international commerce

       Limits of possible Socialism

       CHAPTER 9 LABOUR QUESTIONS

       Socialism in England has not chiefly emanated from the working class

       The Social and Democratic League

       Secessions from it

       The Fabian Society

       Tendencies that favoured Socialism

       Rise of the New Unionism

       Socialist successes—Trade-union congresses

       The Eight Hours Bill

       ‘Nationalisation’ doctrines sanctioned by the Congress of Norwich, 1894

       Exaggerations of the power of the New Unionism

       Some doctrines of English Socialists

       Connection of English Socialism with the agrarian movement in Ireland

       Proposed absorption of railways, &c., by the State

       Absorption of rent and interest by means of taxation

       Effects of such a measure on national prosperity

       Effects of taxation on the poor

       Danger of exaggerated municipal employment

       Some measures of the London County Council

       What industries Government can manage

       Effect of the free propagation of revolutionary opinions

       Moral and religious aspects of English Socialism

       Its denationalising influence

       The Socialism of fashion

       The Factory Laws

       For the protection of children

       Of ‘young persons’

       Of women

       Sanitary laws

       Laws for protecting adults against their own imprudence

       Limiting the hours of labour of adults

       The longest hours and least paid labour not the most productive

       The eight hours day—Objections to it

       The textile manufactures

       Coal mines

       Conflicts in poor men’s interests

       Doctrine that inefficient labour increases employment

       Trade-union policy tends to multiply the unemployed

       And to constitute monopolies

       International agreements about hours of labour—Foreign hours

       Workmen usually prefer higher wages to shorter hours

       The Berlin Labour Conference

       Useful functions of trade unions

       They have not, however, been the chief cause of the rise of wages

       Supply and demand and ‘the living wage’

       Repeal of the combination laws

       Trade Union Act of 1871

       Trade unions as corporations in most respects unrecognised by law

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