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ON INDUSTRIAL PARI’NERSHIPS.*
I. Prcscnt Evils.
11. 13onrds of Arbitration and Conciliation.
111. ’l’mdcs Union Cornmissioncrs’ Reporb.
IY. Mcmrs. Rriggs’ Industrial Partnership.
Y. Mcssrs. For, Head & Co.’s Partncrship.
VI. Summnry of their Schcmc.
VII. Mr. Babbnge’s Proposal of tho Partncrship Principle.
VIII. Advantaps nnd Difficulties of the System.
1s. True Principles of Co-operation.
X. Circumstances Limiting its Application.
XI. Probablo Effects upon tho Working-classes.
XII. Concluding Remarks.
I.
IT was with great pleasure that I undertook to prepare tho
present lecture, bccauso I have become more and more convinced
of the extreme importance of the Industrial Partnership
principle to tha pence and wel1-being of the kingdom.
The seeming novelty of the proposition, that workmen should
become sharers in their master’s profit.a, causes many persons
to stigmatiso the idea ns impracticable, unsound, a.nd opposed
to experience. But I believe that the unsoundness is all in
the present state of thiAgs, and that experience is not against
the novelty but in its favour.
For can any one trnly say that experience is in favour
of the present relations of capital and labour ? Does not
* A lecture delirered under the auspices of the National Association
for the Promotion of Social Science, April 5th, 1870. .