CHAPTER X 



EMPLOYERS AND WORKMEN {COIltmUed) 



If it be granted that, instead of workmen con- 

 stantly striking, or thinking about striking, the 

 nation wants a condition of affairs that admits 

 of labour-capital and the capital that sets labour 

 to work vigorously striving to attain a common 

 object, then it is now to be explained in what 

 way general co-operation appears a possible step 

 towards the ultimate solution of the problem. 



Limiting the explanation at present to that 

 large class of men whose work is extremely 

 monotonous, and who are not in Government 

 employment, we have to find to what new quality 

 general co-operation gives rise, a quality strong 

 enough and definite enough to divert the thoughts 

 of the workman from monotony and carry them 

 elsewhere ; not so as to make him forget his 

 work, but, on the contrary, to keep him concen- 

 trated on it, with a clearly defined purpose. 



That new quality might be called a sense ; it 

 is the sense of ownership, ownership that looms 

 clearly on the horizon, or ownership that is 

 already come. There is no lack of examples 

 tending to show that a quite ordinary man will 



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