Unto This LastUnto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin, critical of the 18th and 19th century capitalist economists. When first published as four magazine articles in 1860 they were, in the words of Ruskin himself, "very violently criticized" and the publisher was forced to halt publication. But Ruskin persevered and released the four articles in this book form in 1862. Gandhi read Unto This Last in 1904 and it had a huge impact on his social and economic philosophy, with Gandhi making an immediate decision to live according to Ruskin's teachings. |
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... profits, the gain of the one may or may not be the loss of the other. It is not the master's interest to pay wages so ... profit hinders him from enlarging his business, or conducting it in a safe and liberal way. A stoker ought not to ...
... profits, the gain of the one may or may not be the loss of the other. It is not the master's interest to pay wages so ... profit hinders him from enlarging his business, or conducting it in a safe and liberal way. A stoker ought not to ...
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... both wages and trade into the form of a lottery, and to make the workman's pay depend on intermittent exertion, and the principal's profit on dexterously used chance. In what partial degree, I repeat, this may be necessary 18.
... both wages and trade into the form of a lottery, and to make the workman's pay depend on intermittent exertion, and the principal's profit on dexterously used chance. In what partial degree, I repeat, this may be necessary 18.
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... profit for himself out of that provision than it is a clergyman's function to get his stipend. This stipend is a due and necessary adjunct, but not the object of his life, if he be a true clergyman, any more than his fee (or honorarium) ...
... profit for himself out of that provision than it is a clergyman's function to get his stipend. This stipend is a due and necessary adjunct, but not the object of his life, if he be a true clergyman, any more than his fee (or honorarium) ...
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