Your pay envelope by John Richard Meader
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"Your Pay Envelope" by John Richard Meader is a critical examination of the principles of socialism written in the early 20th century. The work addresses the economic and social implications of socialist doctrines and aims to disprove the idea that socialism offers solutions to the struggles of the working class. It presents the author's perspectives on various facets of labor, wages, and the capitalist system, laying the groundwork for understanding his opposition
to socialist reform. The opening portion of the text introduces a letter addressed to a worker named Mr. Smith, setting up a conversational and didactic tone. Meader discusses the claims made by a soap-box orator promoting socialism, emphasizing the need for factual analysis over emotive rhetoric. He argues that many assertions about worker exploitation stem from a misunderstanding of economic realities, and he seeks to provide a logical foundation to dispute notions of "wage slavery" under capitalism. This early section also suggests that while workers face genuine hardships, socialism's proposed solutions are impractical, and he prepares to dissect these arguments in the chapters that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Meader, John Richard, 1870- |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 14018068 |
| Title | Your pay envelope |
| Original Publication | United States: The Devin-Adair Company,1914. |
| Credits | deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 57.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | HX: Social sciences: Socialism, Communism, Anarchism |
| Subject | Socialism |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 68755 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-68755-1 |
| Release Date | Aug 15, 2022 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 413 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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