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Man and Machine Power in War and Reconstruction

1918

The cost of production of these articles is relatively small and to put it in commercial terms the boys would save the profits of middlemen and retailers besides the saving effected by producing with the best methods.16 LECTURE In speaking of an educational organisation that would be at the same tine an industrial one and pay as such and connecting with it the idea of the industrial utilisatio [...] The modern social question is one of equipping the workers to use the splendid means of production at our disposal with the help of which they would be able to produce necessaries for themselves abundantly ; that is to say it is a man and machine power problem ; but the old was an entirely different one : it was a question of the public taking possession of existing wealth to use it for the commo [...] That is to say it is contenting itself with advocating public ownership of"LECTURE II veirious kinds of enterprise with a view to securing the profit they yield to the public and managing them in the interests of the public leaving the -.problem of the community using its productive power to the full and giving its workers the full remuneration that modern methods render possible and abolishing [...] When we think of it it appears incredibly absurd but we know well that when a suggestion is made for a plan of production for the producers that is not to be applied to the whole community the tendency is to declare it to be the idea the co-opertors tried but found impossible " and whenever 'a proposal is made for a plan being put in to execution under control of the State people immediatel [...] The other important thing therefore for us to understand is that the whole of the difficulty of capitalisation arises with commercial industries from the competition that comes when articles are produced fbr sale and causes the power to be lost in friction; and that the friction disappears in the case of industries producing articles for the use of their own workers such as training organisati
government politics public policy
Pages
168
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144449
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-2 Capt.J.W. Petavel view
Lecture I The Duty of People of Leisure and Education in the Present Crisis
1-35 Capt.J.W. Petavel view
Lecture II Socialism : Its Truth and its Creat Error
36-64 Capt.J.W. Petavel view
Lecture III Co-Operation—its Great Strength and the Error that Prevented its Solving the Problem
65-94 Capt.J.W. Petavel view
Lecture IV India’s Opportunity to Help the Empire and Herself
95-123 Capt.J.W. Petavel view
Lecture V Reconstruction-The Land Question
124-158 Capt.J.W. Petavel view
Index
159-163 Capt.J.W. Petavel view