A Business Man's Views of Public Matters
Author | : Sinclair Tousey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sinclair Tousey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sinclair Tousey |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781331397519 |
Excerpt from A Business Man's Views of Public Matters I am opposed to Labor Strikes. I believe their results are injurious to the strikers and useless to the community. I grant the abstract right of workmen to demand increased pay for their work, but deny their right to force any person into combinations for that purpose. Such force is injurious to the forced ones, by depriving them of a chance to work for their living, and compelling them either to subsist on charity or consume in idleness the savings of former labor. Combined strikes and trades unions do this, when they require their members to stop work, because in creased wages are demanded. This was the case at Lynn, where the Scabs (those who would work for what they could get being thus called) were daily visited by the strikers' committee, and coaxed and threatened to desist from work. This is wrong. Strikes can never permanently benefit the strikers. Why? Because they are not based on correct principles. The price of labor, like that of all other saleable articles, must be regulated by supply and demand. This is proved by the fact that the same labor commands more pay in one place than in another. California furnishes proofs of this. When the first rush took place to that State, in 1847, day laborers commanded five times as much for their services as they now get. Why Simply because that in 1847 the demand was in excess of the supply, and as the supply increased, as it is always sure to do under high wages, the wages were correspondingly reduced. This must ever be so; were it different, two very great injuries would result: First, the maintenance of high prices must, of necessity, be at the cost of the consumer of labor products; and secondly, if competition be not allowed in the labor market (as it could not be if supply and demand did not regulate prices) injustice, must be done to those who would compete for the labor; and this injustice deprives these parties of the work they would be glad to do. So we must come back to letting supply and de mand regulate prices, and this law can never be set aside by strikes. 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.
Author | : Sinclair Tousey |
Publisher | : Nabu Press |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2014-02-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781294621720 |
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Author | : Sinclair 1818-1887 Tousey |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2016-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781360573762 |
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Author | : Chicago Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Silvana R. Siddali |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2005-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807130421 |
Most historians accept the proposition that in the first two years of the Civil War the North's primary aim was to reestablish the Union and the Constitution, not to emancipate slaves. But when northerners began clamoring for the confiscation of southern land and slaves as a punitive, military, and revenue-raising tactic, the constitutional right to personal property, particularly human property, came into question. In From Property to Person, Silvana R. Siddali traces the resulting discourse among northern voters, politicians, military leaders, and President Lincoln, elucidating how emancipation ultimately became an essential political cause in the North. After the outbreak of civil war, many northern citizens demanded that slaves be seized as contraband without necessarily endorsing their emancipation. Siddali examines the public and political debates in the North over southerners' private property rights and explains how these deliberations set in motion the first major reconsideration of the Constitution since the Bill of Rights. Fundamental questions arose: Who had the right to control the war effort? What were the rights of rebellious citizens in a democratic Republic? How did one define human bondage that is implicitly protected in the nation's founding documents? Would the destruction of slavery irreparably damage the Constitution? Through the two Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862, the author argues, Americans worked out a conundrum between property rights and constitutionally protected civil liberties. The right of all human beings to freedom now trumped white southerners' right to human property. In a rich analysis of editorials, pamphlets, letters, and congressional speeches, From Property to Person reveals the swift transformation in rhetoric concerning the Constitution and its protection of private property rights. The Confiscation Acts paved the way for the Reconstruction Amendments by fostering support for a broader reach by the federal government into private property rights and envisioning a new interpretation of an individual citizen's rights and obligations.
Author | : David Montgomery |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780252008696 |
"For anyone who believes that there was no important labor movement before Roosevelt, or before Gompers, or before the Knights of Labor, this well-documented work should prove a shocker. And for those who look to the past for enlightenment to guide us through our troubled tomorrows, this book is a reservoir of historic information and insights." -- New Leader "Beyond Equality is a masterpiece. . . . A book of bold and brilliant originality, it is now shaping the perspective of a new generation of graduate students." -- David Brion Davis, author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Author | : Harold Melvin Hyman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2017-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1512817090 |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.