Social Classes in Post-war EuropeC. Scribner, 1925 - Počet stran: 178 |
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Strana 69 - ... is of supreme international importance. With exceptions necessitated by differences of climate, habits, and economic development, they include: the guiding principle that labor should not be regarded merely as a commodity or article of commerce; right of association of employers and employees ; a wage adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life; the eight hour day or...
Strana 69 - ... hours, which should include Sunday wherever practicable ; abolition of child labor and assurance of the continuation of the education and proper physical development of children; equal pay for equal work as between men and women ; equitable treatment of all workers lawfully resident therein, including foreigners, and a system of inspection in which women should take part.
Strana 69 - Nine principles of labor conditions are to be recognized, on the ground that "the wellbeing, physical and moral, of the industrial wage-earners is of supreme international importance.
Strana 26 - ... tending to function as one organism. The outer uniformity has not, however, resulted in an inner unity of mind and spirit. The new nearness into which we are drawn has not meant increasing happiness and diminishing friction, since we are not mentally and spiritually prepared for the meeting. Maxim Gorky relates how, after addressing a peasant audience on the subject of science and the marvels of technical inventions, he was criticized by a peasant spokesman in the following words : " Yes, we...
Strana 145 - ... the industrial revolution which began in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Strana 96 - If you are properly organized," concluded Mr. Jones, "you will become the greatest force in the nation. You can possibly hold up all the workers, you could hold up the capitalists, or you could even hold up the Government. You must see you are not squeezed or crushed and that you are placed in such a position as will necessitate a fair and square deal in all things, and the right to live.
Strana 96 - The meeting adopted a constitution, its preamble stating: , "We are being taxed out of existence. We are being exploited for the benefit of the lower classes or for the benefit of the financial groups and profiteers in the upper classes." The Union's aims were thus officially stated in its constitution: To promote mutual understanding between all classes of the community and secure an equitable distribution of national taxation. To obtain the removal of unfair burdens on the middle classes, and to...
Strana 87 - Here ... is a complete and startling transformation of values; not slowly changing from one to another, but suddenly and almost brutally forced upon the life of millions by causes altogether outside their control . . .7 Middle-class spokesmen lamented the new 'corporatist...
Strana 70 - ... twenty-four hours, which should include Sunday wherever practicable; abolition of child labor and assurance of the continuation of the education and proper physical development of children; equal pay for equal work as between men and women; equitable treatment of all workers, including foreigners; and a system of inspection in which women should take part.
Strana 96 - English movement was formally launched in April, 1919, when a convention was held in London to inaugurate the formation of a " Middle Classes' Union." The chairman, Mr. Kennedy Jones, stated in his opening address that the organization was to be formed to obtain protection for those members of the community who could in no other way protect their domestic and political interests. "If you are properly organized,