The Relative Rights And Interests Of The Employer And Employed Discussed - Softcover

John Frearson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461337118 ISBN 13: 9780461337112

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

The Relative Rights And Interests Of The Employer And Employed Discussed: And A System Proposed By Which The Conflicting Interests Of All Classes Of Society May Be Reconciled by John Frearson. The work surveys the enduring conflict between capital and labor and critiques prevailing schemes—unions, labor parliaments, and Owenite experiments—as insufficient. Frearson argues that no permanent solution can arise from class antagonism; instead, he proposes a practical, nature-based social order built on cooperation between capital, skill, and labor. The core scheme envisions joint-stock companies comprising capitalists and industrial workers as shareholders, with housing for workers, a centralized factory, and welfare provisions financed by five percent interest on capital and one-tenth savings, plus a patent-and-invention depository. The plan emphasizes merit-based rewards, limited liability, and universal access to basic goods, education, and spiritual nurture, while discouraging destructive strikes and charitable dependency. The author analyzes objections to the plan and argues it would align personal self-interest with the public good, ending class warfare and enabling national progress.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461337118
• ISBN 13: 9780461337112
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168