Land, Labour, and Machinery: English Socialist Pamphlet

 Land, Labour, and Machinery. (1879) Co-Operative Printing Society: Manchester. 16-mo. paperback, 22 pp. With markings of Providence, RI Athenaeum.
 

    

This little pamphlet of three essays on the effects of mechanized industry was published by the Central Co-operative Board in Manchester England, one of the first major Co-operative warehouses and a fore-runner of modern co-op stores and businesses. The first is "Men and Machines" by its founder, the Christian Socialist E.V. Neale; the second is "Displacement of Labour by Machinery", a committee paper by the American Social Science Association in Cincinnati, OH; the last is a translation from french of "Labour and Machinery" by Jean-Baptiste André Godin, a Fourierist utopian who had founded a worker-owned cooperative factory-colony in Guise, France.