Author : Percy Redfern
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 042894549X
The Consumers Place in Society (Classic Reprint) by Percy Redfern Pdf
Excerpt from The Consumers Place in Society The lectures were given to co-operative and labour audiences, and the lecturer was happiest when (as in South Wales) the schools included militant young men from left-wing trade councils. He did not want to impede or distract Labour in its fight but he did want the young men to contend not for sections but for the whole Of the people, the consumers. Apart from the struggle between owners farming out possessions for profit and unions to sell labour at the highest possible price, he stood for a third party potentially greater than either - a party organised in a reconstructive movement leading to a new industry based on the peoples' needs, under the ownership and control Of the people in their masses. But while claiming the chief place for that third party he did not forget that the million wide ranks Of Labour are drawn from the flesh and blood Of the common democratic household whereas the capitalist mansion is another establishment altogether. In View Of the miners' stand for the British domestic consumer and in view, also, Of the very interesting experiment in co-operation between the municipalities, the Building Guild and the CO Operative Wholesale and co-operative Insurance Societies now proceeding, he is glad to emphasise again this common bond. For the idea Of his opening sentence the author is indebted to Mankind in the Making, by Mr. H. G. Wells - the book which Mr. Shaw proposed to dramatise by means Of a spout discharging the babies! He believes this to be the only due acknowledgment not to be found in the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
