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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 1396
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Text understand or are capable of doing the work out of which they make their money. Most of the employers in the building trade for instance would be incapable of doing any skilled work. Very few of them would be worth their salt as journeymen. The only work they do is to scheme to reap the benefit of the labour of others.

`The men who now become managers and foremen are selected not because of their ability as craftsmen, but because they are good slave-drivers
and useful producers of profit for their employers.'
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