The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice E-Book

Stephen Leacock

• Herausgeber: Publisher s11838
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice written by Stephen Leacock who was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. This book is one of many works by him. It has already Published in 1920. Now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy reading this book.

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The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice

By

Stephen Leacock

Table of Contents

I.—The Troubled Outlook of the Present Hour

II.—Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

III.—The Failures and Fallacies of Natural Liberty

IV.—Work and Wages

V.—The Land of Dreams: The Utopia of the Socialist

VI.—How Mr. Bellamy Looked Backward

VII.—What Is Possible and What Is Not

I.—The Troubled Outlook of the Present Hour

THESE are troubled times. As the echoes of the war die away the sound of a new conflict rises on our ears. All the world is filled with industrial unrest. Strike follows upon strike. A world that has known five years of fighting has lost its taste for the honest drudgery of work. Cincinnatus will not back to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing for a higher wage.

The wheels of industry are threatening to stop. The laborer will not work because the pay is too low and the hours are too long. The producer cannot employ him because the wage is too high, and the hours are too short. If the high wage is paid and the short hours are granted, then the price of the thing made, so it seems, rises higher still. Even the high wages will not buy it. The process apparently moves in a circle with no cessation to it. The increased wages seem only to aggravate the increasing prices. Wages and prices, rising together, call perpetually for more money, or at least more tokens and symbols, more paper credit in the form of checks and deposits, with a value that is no longer based on the rock-bottom of redemption into hard coin, but that floats upon the mere atmosphere of expectation.