Socialism

How, then, was this baleful in?uence counteracted? To what is the improvement which has Since taken place to be attributed?

The first check was factory legislation. Inaugurated in 1802, it began to be effective about 1817. Step by step the power Of the capitalist exploiters to subject the workers to degrading conditions has been limited by law. SO far as the workers are concerned this sort of legislation IS but a tempo rary expedient to make our present system tolerable so long as it must last; and to day, as you know, their efforts in this direction are being concentrated on the demand for a legally established eight-hour workday.

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