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The book chronicles the various ethnic groups that immigrated to the United States since its independence. While some of the language and ideas discussed in this book may be outdated in today's world, it provides valuable insight into the commonly held values and concepts of the era in which it was written.
The Boss and the Machine A Chronicle of the Politicians and Party Organization Samuel Peter Orth
Reproduction of the original: The Boss and the Machine by Samuel P. Orth
The American people, as they faced the approaching age with the experiences of the race behind them, fashioned many of their institutions 2and laws on British models. This is true to such an extent that the subject of this book, the rise of labor in America, cannot be understood without a preliminary survey of the British industrial system nor even without some reference to the feudal system, of which English society for many centuries bore the marks and to which many relics of tenure and of class and governmental responsibility may be traced. Feudalism was a society in which the status of an individual was fixed: he was underman or overman in a rigid social scale according as he considered ...
This book chronicles the rise of wage-earners' organization in America. Samuel Peter Orth does an excellent job of putting forward the impact of organized labor movements on the landscape of American society. He presents stories of the people who lead the movement, and the challenges they had to overcome to create better working conditions for wage-earners. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Socialism and Democracy in Europe" by Samuel Peter Orth. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
There are two words, as yet quite unfamiliar to American readers, which are met with constantly in European works on Socialism and are heard on every hand in political discussions--proletariat and bourgeois. The proletariat are the wage-earning class, the poor, the underlings.