Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes, 1867: With Some Facts Illustrative of Their Economic Condition, Drawn From Authentic and Official Sources, in a Report to Michael T. Bass (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Leone Levi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133079432X ISBN 13: 9781330794326

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes, 1867: With Some Facts Illustrative of Their Economic Condition, Drawn From Authentic and Official Sources, in a Report to Michael T. Bass

But look again. Very near that luxuriant field is a The Mme). Mine. Descend it. Fear not to enter that dismal cavern. N o inscription is at its portal, Lasciate aym' speranza voz' 'ntmte, All hepe abandon ye who enter here. And what do you see? Numbers Of men, groping in darkness, amidst coal and metal, extracting riches from thevery bowels Of the earth. See these hewers, squat ting down, frog-like in atti their backsm into the hard seam of coal; see that trapper, quite a little boy, sitting in darkness for hours and hours, Opening the trap door for the air current; or those drivers, as they conduct the laden tubs of coals on long low wagons. How glad would you he, were your visit real instead of imaginary, quickly to seize the ladder, or man engine, and ascend once more to the genial sunshine. And did I say, enter ye freely into that fiery pit? Shudder, indeed, when you think of the many who so recently, cheerily, entered into their labour in the morning, and in a few hours were the victims of an explosion of the fiery gases. Oh! What responsibility rests on those who, employ ing labour of so dangerous a character, fail to take the necessary precautions for the safety of the work men.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 133079432X
• ISBN 13: 9781330794326
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208