An Interpretation of the Social Movements of Our Time (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Interpretation of the Social Movements of Our TimeThis is a most important fact if we would understand the industrial armament in which the world stands today, for it Shows that the con centration of industrial power did not begin with the workmen when they organized themselves into unions, but was an inevitable result of the use of machinery in a society whose legal structure was shaped to meet the conditions of personal competition. It began when employers came to be exclusive proprietors of machinery, of material, and of factory. My point is this. The birth of a capitalist class, freed from the restraints formerly imposed by custom and law, was the first step in industrial armament, while the organization of labor into unions of trades is to be regarded as a Second step, a counter movement on the part of those whose interests were endangered by the rise of great industries. This is the historical explanation of trades-unions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.