Some Ethical Phases of the Labor Question |
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Adam Smith adopted AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION better causes civilization committee Contract System convict labor cotton crime criminal Decalogue demand domestic system duction economists effect elements employed employers England establishment ETHICAL PHASES evils existed experience fact factory girls factory operatives factory system facture force grade higher human increase influence institutions intelligence intemperance inventions labor and capital labor question labor reformers laissez faire Lease System legislation living machinery manufactures Massachusetts material ment methods mills moral nation obliged obstacle penal labor penologists philosophy political economy population principles prison labor production progress prosperity Public Account System race recognize reformatory relations religion religious Reybaud Robert Owen secure sentiment Sing Sing skill social society sociology supplies sweating system system of labor teach tion to-day tory system trade true wages wealth workers writers York
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Page 64 - The Leaders of Industry, if Industry is ever to be led, are virtually the Captains of the World ; if there be no nobleness in them, there will never be an Aristocracy more.
Page 104 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 92 - A factory is an establishment where several workmen are collected together for the purpose of obtaining greater and cheaper conveniences for labor than they could procure individually at their homes; for producing results by their combined efforts which they could not accomplish separately; and for saving the loss of time which the carrying of an article from place to place, during the several processes necessary to complete its manufacture, would occasion. The principle of a factory...
Page 30 - It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in consequence of the pursuit of wealth. It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive ; except those which may be regarded as perpetually antagonizing principles to the desire of wealth ; namely, aversion to labour, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences.
Page 182 - This section shall not be construed to prevent the Legislature from providing that convicts may work for, and that the products of their labor may be disposed of to, the State or any political division thereof...
Page 30 - It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and who is capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end.
Page 60 - THERE is -NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
Page 180 - January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, no person in any such prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory, shall be required or allowed to work, while under sentence thereto, at any trade, industry or occupation, wherein or whereby his work, or the product or profit of his work, shall be farmed out, contracted, given or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation.
Page 164 - Clement XI, Supreme Pontiff, reared this prison for the reformation and education of criminal youths, to the end that those who when idle had been injurious to the state, might when better instructed and trained, become useful to it.