A study in democracy: being an account of the rise and progress of industrial co-operation in Bristol . nches were unable tocarry their proposal to reduce the entrance fee for newmembers. It is probable they would ha\e done so if theyhad persevered with their usual persistence, but othermatters of business intervened for the time being, and thequestion was allowed to drop. That women may be useful upon ^Management Com-mittees cannot be questioned among Bristol Co-operators;and the minute books show that in matters of detail thewomen are strong in criticism, and fairly accurate injudgment. The
A study in democracy: being an account of the rise and progress of industrial co-operation in Bristol . nches were unable tocarry their proposal to reduce the entrance fee for newmembers. It is probable they would ha\e done so if theyhad persevered with their usual persistence, but othermatters of business intervened for the time being, and thequestion was allowed to drop. That women may be useful upon ^Management Com-mittees cannot be questioned among Bristol Co-operators;and the minute books show that in matters of detail thewomen are strong in criticism, and fairly accurate injudgment. The mere man might waive the question ofblack dresses for shop assistants upon the score offaddism, and, as a matter of fact, did up till 1902, whenthe women on the Committee pointed out to their col-leagues that the coloured dresses of the assistants made abad set-off to customers judging coloured a result the liat went forth that black should be worn,but that the young ladies should be supplied with materialat cost price, and Mrs. Fidkin and Mrs. Greenland weretold off to explain U ?si: -o go -tt! 9T3 INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATION IN BRISTOL. 537 CHAPTER VI. Associations of Producers. THERE is another method b}- which the workers havesought to develop the Co-operative idea in orderto emancipate themselves from the thraldom ofcapital. This method was borrowed by the ChristianSocialists from France, and, during the middle of lastcentury, it was propagated with extraordinary enthusiasmand ability by those famous pioneers of social reform. Robert Owen was not only an idealist, he was aneminently practical business man; but those gentlemenwere lacking the expert knowledge of Owen. They sawthe evil results of the Industrial Revolution, the substitu-tion of the factory hand for the craftsman, and thedegradation of men and women to mere machines, withoutfully realising that the introduction of machinery hadsuperseded for ever the domestic system of ,
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