Representative Government and a Parliament of Industry: A Study of the German Federal Economic CouncilFabian Society, 1923 - 273 páginas |
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... existence only about two and a half years , but the theories surrounding its birth and the problems that have arisen since its establishment and during its short period of life are already of importance to political scientists . This ...
... existence only about two and a half years , but the theories surrounding its birth and the problems that have arisen since its establishment and during its short period of life are already of importance to political scientists . This ...
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... existence to - day . They are the outcome of a defect in the public habit of mind , one that is common in British parliaments and in British Ministers who derive from these their authority . That habit is to proceed to immediate action ...
... existence to - day . They are the outcome of a defect in the public habit of mind , one that is common in British parliaments and in British Ministers who derive from these their authority . That habit is to proceed to immediate action ...
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... existence and activity . The essential of these associations is this : they are usually continuous until they have achieved their purpose ; their membership consists of people who join , mainly voluntarily , because they approve of the ...
... existence and activity . The essential of these associations is this : they are usually continuous until they have achieved their purpose ; their membership consists of people who join , mainly voluntarily , because they approve of the ...
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... existence of the capitalistic system in industry : by employers ' associations on the one side , and employees ' and workers ' associations on the other . Closely following the latter in matters of wage and work conditions , came the ...
... existence of the capitalistic system in industry : by employers ' associations on the one side , and employees ' and workers ' associations on the other . Closely following the latter in matters of wage and work conditions , came the ...
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... existence , 2 but no claim to be recognised by the employers , and accordingly they received only occasional recognition . The majority of the workers in the Free ( i.e. the Social Democratic ) Trade Unions were Marxian , to the extent ...
... existence , 2 but no claim to be recognised by the employers , and accordingly they received only occasional recognition . The majority of the workers in the Free ( i.e. the Social Democratic ) Trade Unions were Marxian , to the extent ...
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according activity administration advisory agriculture appointed Article 165 Association of German authority basis Berlin branches of industry Cabinet Central Industrial Alliance Chambers of Labour citizens Clause co-operation Commerce Committee consumers Council system debate Decree demand democracy discussion District Economic Councils District Workers Division Division III Drucksache duties Economic Affairs elected electoral employers and employed established experts Federal Economic Council Federal Industrial Alliances full Assembly German Democratic Party Government Guild Socialism Heilfron House of Commons Ibid important institutions interests legislation liberal professions matters ment Minister Ministry for Economic mittee National Assembly needs nominated occupational official organisations Parliamentary parties political Parliament procedure provisional questions regulation Reichsrat Reichstag relation Report repre representation representative democracy resolution Rudolf Wissell Session side SIDNEY WEBB social society socio-political sumers territorial theory tion Trade Unions various Verhandlungen vocational groups voting whole
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Página 20 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 3 - ... Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of bookreading;...
Página 20 - ... led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.
Página 24 - We may, in fact, not unfairly say that Trade Unionism has, in 1920, won its recognition by Parliament and the Government, by law and by custom, as a separate element in the community, entitled to distinct recognition as part of the social machinery of the State...
Página 3 - I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Página 5 - ... individuals, the conclusion is obvious: The Community itself must check those individuals, else they will follow their interest, and produce bad Government. But how is it the Community can check? The community can act only when assembled: And then it is incapable of acting.
Página 99 - The District Economic Councils and the Economic Council of the Reich shall be so constituted as to give representation thereon to all important vocational groups in proportion to their economic and social importance. All Bills of fundamental importance dealing with matters of social and economic legislation shall, before being introduced, be submitted by the Government of the Reich to the Economic Council of the Reich for its opinion thereon.
Página 9 - In the United States," says an experienced American publicist, whose opinion I have inquired, "though lobbying is perfectly legitimate in theory, yet the secrecy and want of personal responsibility, the confusion and want of system in the committees, make it rapidly degenerate into a process of intrigue, and fall into the hands of the worst men. It...
Página 98 - Council of the Reich. The District Workers' Council and the Workers' Council of the Reich shall combine with representatives of the...