rise of money wages, apart from the consideration of a greater efficiency of labor, in prices, profits, and rent? Give reasons for your
- How does the general progress of society in wealth and industrial efficiency tend to affect the rate of wages, the rate of profit, and the rate of rent, respectively?
- What is the general effect of the progress of society on the land-owner, the capitalist, and the laborer?
Future of Laboring-Classes.
- Examine the influences of machinery on the economic condition of the working-classes.
- Mention and discuss some of the popular remedies for low wages, and especially the effect of the subdivision of landed property among peasant proprietors.
- Explain briefly what is meant by co-operation, and indicate the more prominent forms assumed by the co-operative movement.
- What is meant by the co-operative system of industry? Show ways in which this system may affect, for good or for evil, the productiveness of labor; and mention any moral benefits, or the opposite, in which it may be expected to issue.
- What are the difficulties in the way of co-operation for the production of salable objects?
- Explain the advantages of industrial partnership, in which the employés share, in proportion to the wages received, half the profits of the business beyond a certain fixed minimum which is assigned