Word: labors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speakers for the affirmative do not appear as labor agitators or Socialists, who believe that the effect of great discoveries and inventions of machinery has provided an injury to working classes as a whole. But the effect of the growth of the factory system and the division of labor was to place the workman at a disadvantage by depriving him of all control over the conditions of his employment. With this change has come the remedy of organization among laborers, for only by organization could workmen bargain on equal terms with capitalist employers. Under the influence of old economic principles...
...number of the instruments carried off. Apparently the robbery was committed by two Indians. The property stolen would of course be of no use to the thieves and its intrinsic value would be a small part of the actual loss. The work at this station was conducted with great labor, a mule path had been built to the summit and the entire expenditure had been large. It will be a serious loss to science if it proves impossible to maintain the station...
Seminary of Economics. Child Labor in the Early Factories. Mr. Hisa. University...
Seminary of Economics. Child Labor in the Early Factories. Mr. Hisa. University...
...opposed to progress. - (a) Workingmen should not be treated as children: Nation LIX, 376 (Nov. 22, 1894.) - (b) Checks the growth of Trade Unions: Am. Fed. of Labor in Pub. Opin. XVIII, 863 (Dec. 6, 1894). - (c) Is opposed by Gompers and other labor leaders: Pub. Opin...