A guide to systematic readings in the new Werner twentieth century edition of the Encyclopaedia britannica

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... call-ing a man should be willing and able to work. The honest laboring man finds work necessary for his sustenance, but it is equally neces sary for men of all conditions and in every relationship of life.... Labor is indeed the price set upon everything which is valuable. Nothing can be accomplished without it." In the present chapter it is the purpose of the Guide to point out some of the many articles and other passages in the Encyclopaedia Britannica that may be of general interest to all classes of workingmen, especially to those who labor with their hands. The history of labor is identical with the history of civilization, for without the one t'ne other could not exist Workingmen of the present day may learn much that is both interesting and instructive by studying the conditions of labor in former times and in other countries. The Britannica affords ample facilities for such study. See, for example, the following articles or parts of articles: Labor in early times, I, 262; XIV, 166. Slavery, XXII, 137. Labor in England in the Middle Ages, XIV, 167. Day-laborers in the time of Queen Elizabeth, XIV, 169. Labor laws in Great Britain, XIV 171. The factory system, XXIX, 209. Apprenticeship, II, 185; IX, 667. Guilds, XI, 230; of London, XIV, 828. The following articles will be found of greater or less interest to the different classes of workingmen everywhere: Labor and Capital, XXIV, 54. Labor and Wages, XXIV, 326. Labor and Wealth, XXIV, 487. Labor and Socialism, XXII, 217, 223. Labor and Communism, VI, 193. The Sweating System, XXIX, 208. Capital, V, 64. Capital and Socialism, XXII, 218, 224. Theories concerning capital, XIX, 387. Wages, XXIV, 326; XIV, 166. Wages in the United States, XXIX, 464. Payment of wages, XVIII, 451. Lassalle's theory of ...