Thrift by Samuel Smiles
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workmen--Rights and habits--Influence of the wife--A penny a day--The
power of a penny--Joseph Baxendale--Pickford and Co.--Roads and Railways--Business maxims. Pages 159--178 CHAPTER X. MASTERS AND MEN. Want of sympathy--Masters and servants--Christian sympathy--Competition--What capital represents--Workmen and employers--The Ashworths--New Eagley Mills--Improved workpeople--Public spirit of manufacturers--Mr. Lister of Bradford--Mr. Foster's speech--Great men wise savers--Sir Titus Salt--Saltaire--Its institutions--Music and sobriety--Mr. Akroyd, Halifax--Yorkshire penny bank--Origin of the bank--How to help the poor--Saving helps sobriety--Drunkenness put down--"Childish work"--Penny banks. Pages 179--204 CHAPTER XI. THE CROSSLEYS--MASTERS AND MEN (CONTINUED). John Crossley--Martha Crossley--A courtship begun--A courtship concluded--John Crossley begins business--Dean Clough Mill--The Crossley family--Sir Francis Crossley--Martha Crossley's vow--Halifax People's Park--Martha's vow fulfilled--Co-operation of colliers--Partnership of industry--Other co-operative schemes--Jeremiah Head--Newport rolling mills--Bonuses to workmen--Mr. Carlyle's letter--A contrast--A hundred |
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