A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil: Original Text

ISBN-10
ISBN-13: 9798634801278
Series: A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil
Pages: 90
Language: English
Published: 2020-04-12
Author: Jane Addams

Description

It is always easy to overwork an analogy, and yet the economist who for years insisted that slave labor continually and arbitrarily limited the wages of free labor and was therefore a detriment to national wealth was a forerunner of the economist of to-day who points out the economic basis of the social evil, the connection between low wages and despair, between over-fatigue and the demand for reckless pleasure.