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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Page 6
... workmen. Here occurs one of the simplest cases, in a pertinent and positive form, of the first vital problem which political economy has to deal with (the relation between employer and employed); and, at a severe crisis, when lives in ...
... workmen. Here occurs one of the simplest cases, in a pertinent and positive form, of the first vital problem which political economy has to deal with (the relation between employer and employed); and, at a severe crisis, when lives in ...
Page 8
... workman's interest to be paid high wages if the smallness of the master's profit hinders him from enlarging his business, or conducting it in a safe and liberal way. A stoker ought not to desire high pay if the company is too poor to ...
... workman's interest to be paid high wages if the smallness of the master's profit hinders him from enlarging his business, or conducting it in a safe and liberal way. A stoker ought not to desire high pay if the company is too poor to ...
Page 14
... workmen, we are met first by certain curious difficulties, resulting, apparently, from a harder and colder state of moral ... workman at a rate of wages variable according to the demand for labour, and with the risk of being at any time ...
... workmen, we are met first by certain curious difficulties, resulting, apparently, from a harder and colder state of moral ... workman at a rate of wages variable according to the demand for labour, and with the risk of being at any time ...
Page 15
... workmen may be engaged and maintained at such fixed rate of wages (whatever the state of trade may be), without enlarging or diminishing their number, so as to give them permanent interest in the establishment with which they are ...
... workmen may be engaged and maintained at such fixed rate of wages (whatever the state of trade may be), without enlarging or diminishing their number, so as to give them permanent interest in the establishment with which they are ...
Page 16
... by an invariable standard. "What!" the reader perhaps answers amazedly: "pay good and bad workmen alike?" Certainly. The difference between one prelate's sermons and his successor's — or between one physician's opinion and 16.
... by an invariable standard. "What!" the reader perhaps answers amazedly: "pay good and bad workmen alike?" Certainly. The difference between one prelate's sermons and his successor's — or between one physician's opinion and 16.
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