Saturday, June 06, 2020

THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY R. H. TAWNEY

THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY



BY

R. H. TAWNEY


FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD; LATE MEMBER
OF THE COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION



NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY




COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE, INC.


PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY, N. J.



CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I  INTRODUCTORY
II  RIGHTS AND FUNCTIONS
III  THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY
IV  THE NEMESIS OF INDUSTRIALISM
V  PROPERTY AND CREATIVE WORK
VI  THE FUNCTIONAL SOCIETY
VII  INDUSTRY AS A PROFESSION
VIII  THE "VICIOUS CIRCLE"
IX  THE CONDITION OF EFFICIENCY
X  THE POSITION OF THE BRAIN WORKER
XI  PORRO UNUM NECESSARIUM



The author desires to express his acknowledgments to the Editor of the Hibbert Journal for permission to reprint an article which appeared in it.

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The Acquisitive Society

The name of R.H. Tawney still evokes the heroic phase of socialism. His work is associated with the belief in equality and fellowship, with the commitment to strive for the creation of a just social order to replace capitalism, and with the obligation of the educated and the privileged to put their talents at the service of the working class. (It is, of course, one sign that the heroic phase of socialism is over that few of the terms in this sentence can now be used confidently and without qualification.) Within the international history of socialism, and still more within the history of the labor movement in Britain, Tawney has a secure place in the pantheon of influential thinkers. Moreover, he was revered for his personality and example as much as for his writings, above all for his unaffected manner, his unworldly asceticism, and his deep sympathy with the efforts of working people to improve their lot, especially through adult education, to which he devoted a great deal of his own time and energy. He remained a cherished figure in English radical and working-class circles long after his death in 1962 at the age of eighty-two. He is one of the few secular figures to whom the label “saint” gets applied unironically.

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