The Acquisitive SocietyTawney, R. H. (Richard Henry)
Philosophy
The Acquisitive Society
Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry)
Economics; Industries; Social problems
Feudalism, 18
Fixed salaries, 177-178
Forced labor, 102
France, social and industrial conditions in, 16-17;
Feudalism in, 18; Revolution in, 15, 65, 69
French Revolution, 15, 65, 69
Function, definition of, 8; as a basis for remuneration, 41-42;
as a basis of social reorganization, 180; Function and Freedom, 7
Functional Society, 29, 84-90
Functionless property-owners, 79, 86; abolishment of, 87-88;
an expensive luxury, 87
Gainford, Lord, quoted, 26, 111
Gantt, H. L., 175
Government control in war time, 25-26
Ground-rents, 89-90, 91
Hobson, Mr., 63
"Hundred-Family Man," 178
Imperial Tobacco Company, 116
Incomes, 41
Income Tax, 22
Income without service, 68
Individualism, 48-49
Individual rights, 9
Individual rights _vs._ social functions, 27
Industrial problems, 7
Industrial reorganization, 151, 155
Industrial revolution, 9
Industrial societies, 9
Industrial warfare, cause of, and remedy for, 40-42
Industrialism, 18; a poison, 184; compared to Militarism, 44-46;
exaggerated estimate of its importance, 45-46; failure of present
system, 139-141; nemesis of, 33-51; spread of, 30; tendency of,
31-32
Industry, and a profession, 94, 97; as a profession, 91 _et seq._,
125-126; deficiencies of, 147; definition of, 6; how private
control of may be terminated, 103-104; and the advantages of such
a change, 106; Building Trades' Plan for, 108, 111; motives in,
155-159; nationalization of, 104, 114-118; present organization
of intolerable, 129; purpose of, 8, 46, 181; right organization
of, 6-7; the means not the end, 46-47
Inheritance taxes, 90
Insurance, 74
Joint control, 111-112
Joint-stock companies, 66
Joint-stock organizations, 97
Labor, absolute rights of, 28; and capital, 98-100, 108; compulsory,
100; control of breaking down, 139 _et seq._; degradation of, 35;
forced, 102
League of Nations, 101
Liberal Movement, 18
Locke, 14, 52, 55
Management divorced from ownership, 112-113
Mann, Sir John, 126
Militarism, 44-45
Mill, quoted, 89
Mine managers, position of, 162, 166-168
Mining royalties, 23-24, 88
Nationalism, 48-49
Nationalization, 114, 117; of the Coal Industry, 115, 165, 168-169
Natural right in France, 15; in England, 15-16; doctrine of, 21
Officials, position under the present economic system, 162
Old industrial order a failure, 139; its effect on the consumer, 144
Organization, for public service instead of private gains, 127
Over-centralization, 121
Ownership, a new system of, 112-114
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