Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2Roscher, Wilhelm
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Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2
Roscher, Wilhelm
Economics
[Footnote 176-3: The Preston strikers of 1853 got even from
their non-striking colleagues, £30,000. Had their masters
prevented this, the affair would have been terminated much
sooner. (Quart. Rev., Oct. 1859.) But employers are much
more frequently divided by rivalries than workmen,
especially in strikes against new machines or when a
manufacturer, who has too large a supply of goods on hand,
desires a strike himself. On account of their smaller
number, too, they are less in a condition to declare a
recusant colleague in disgrace. _Adam Smith's_ remark that
coalitions of capitalists are much more frequent than those
of workmen, only that much less is said of them, is hardly
applicable to our time. (Wealth of Nat., I, ch. 8, p. 100,
ed. Bas.) But, since the strike of the London builders in
1859, capitalists have begun to form more general opposing
unions. On a very energetic one among the ship builders on
the Clyde, see _Count de Paris_, Les Associations ouvrières
en Angleterre, 1869, ch. 7. Examples on a smaller scale,
Edinburg Review, LXXXIX, 327 ff. On the other hand, a
"lock-out" on the part of capitalists is very difficult,
from the fact that it is impossible to prevent idle workmen
from being supported from the poor fund. Moreover, there can
be no greater folly than for the workmen to add insult to
their masters to their demand for higher wages, because then
the limits within which the latter are willing to continue
the business at all, are made much narrower, than they would
be on a merely economic estimate.]
[Footnote 176-4: Thus the "iron man," by which a single
person can put from 1,500 to 3,000 spindles in motion; also
an improved plane-machine, by means of which several colors
can be printed at once. (_Ure_, Philosophy of Manufactures,
366 ff.) Machines for riveting cauldrons. (_Dingler_,
Polytechnisches Journal, LXXV, 413.)]
[Footnote 176-5: Compare the statements in the Statist.
Journal, 1867, 7.]
[Footnote 176-6: Thus in several places in 1848, and in
Paris in 1789, where even the lackeys and apothecary clerks
formed such unions. (_Wachsmuth_, Gesch. Frankreichs im
Revolutionszeitalter, I, 178.) Similarly, frequently in
isolated factories.]
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