Labour policy—false and true

Chapter 2: PREFACE

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The author critically examines the Labour Party’s programme, arguing that its embrace of nationalization, direct action, and class-based politics relies on mistaken premises. He traces the party’s development and surveys competing socialist doctrines and international movements, then details domestic proposals for nationalizing industries, land reform, and workers’ control. He evaluates contemporary government labour measures and contrasts them with alternatives that prioritize efficient industrial organization, personal initiative, and community welfare while allowing for regulated private enterprise. The book blends economic history, institutional analysis, and prescriptive argument to define what the author considers a practical solution to the labour problem.

PREFACE

Portions of some of the chapters in this book have already appeared in The Times, the Quarterly Review, the Edinburgh Review, the Nineteenth Century, the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard, and are now incorporated in their proper place in the larger scheme on which they were originally written. I am indebted to the proprietors of those publications for their kindness in permitting me so to reproduce them.

An old friend and valued colleague of mine in the Department of Shipyard Labour—Mr. C. F. Farrar—did me the great service of assisting to get the book through the press.

To my Secretary, Miss K. I. Toogood, I owe the preparation of the Index.

L. M.

August 12th, 1922.