Excerpt from Artisans and Machinery: The Moral and Physical Condition of the Manufacturing Population, Considered With Reference to Mechanical Substitutes for Human LabourNor can any wonder be felt that men should grow discontented and dissatisfied who labour fourteen or sixteen hours daily, and earn from four to six shillings per week, and who see not the most remote probability that their condition will be improved. Upwards of a million of human beings are literally starving, and the number is constantly on the increase, hand-weaving being the only refuge for the adult labourer, since the spread of the factory system.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.