The Effects Of Machinery On Wages Cambr Cobden Prize Essay For 1877 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Effects of Machinery on Wages In the following pages greater space has certainly been devoted to the evil than to the good results of machinery, and lest I be supposed to hold pessimist views on the subject a word of explanation seems desirable. I observed whilst collecting materials for my Essay, that though many writers of repute had clearly and fully discussed the good effects of Machinery, hardly one had noticed the evils inherent in its use. For example, the veteran economist M. Chevalier devotes quite a third part of his Cours d'Economie Politique (first published I believe in 1840) to an elaborate and detailed eulogium of Machinery, but he passes over the dangers, or treats them as if they were of small importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.