But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.
Manufacturing still has the greatest multiplier effect, in terms of job creation, of any sector of the economy.
There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.
For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.
Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, 'trickle-down economics.' That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.
The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.