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Rethinking governance from the shop floor up, this work argues for a guild-based state that centers human needs, craft knowledge, and practical honesty over grand political theory.
Exploring the idea that democracy works best when those who actually work in a trade help shape its rules, the text examines how local guilds might manage industries with less friction and more accountability. It contrasts familiar parliamentary systems with a model where candidates are judged by their daily performance and real expertise, not by eloquence or party slogans. The book also dives into the challenges of balancing local autonomy with national coherence, and it sketches how a voluntary, non-coercive framework could guide important trades from mining to building.
- How a guild candidate earns support through actual work and proven skill, not mere promises.
- Why intimate knowledge of voters and candidates matters for trustworthy governance.
- Differences between coercive central rule and voluntary, advise-only national assemblies.
- Practical examples like building trades, illustrating local distinctiveness within a national system.
Ideal for readers curious about alternative structures for economy, labor, and democracy, this edition offers a clear view of a different path toward social organization.
Ideal for readers of political theory, labor history, and reform-minded thinkers seeking concrete, craft-centered governance ideas.
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The facts on which this book is based are drawn from the standard [historical and economic sources, too numerous to name. Their interpreta tion owes more to the teaching of everyday life than to the professors; though the essay would probably, not have been attempted but for the advantage of many conversations with Mrs'. Emily Townshend and Mr. Arthur J. Fenty.
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There is consequently much hurrying to and fro in the world like a camp scuttling to tighten the ropes before the wind begins. The soldiers and the politicians, knowing little of history or anything else vainly imagined that they could give us their Great Plague of 1914-1918, and that no Wat Tylers and John Balls would arise hereafter to declare that they disliked the results. To-day, the rulers of the earth probably realize that they have been like schoolboys recklessly playing in a powder magazine. Hence a sudden crop of books on Reform and Reconstruction, as numberless as the good intentions with which the other world is rumoured to be already paved. They would be admirable books, so many of them, if it were not for the somewhat vital defect that they ignore tnost of the facts. More especially, they refuse to take man that patient sport of the wits and the wise as he really exists; but rather as a dummy studio model, which they may dress according to their weirdest tastes. There was once, it is said, a learned professor who set himself to write an essay on the giraffe. He did not go to Africa to see one; he retired to a tower and wrote a beautiful and convincing book out of his imagination. The following essay is an attempt to state the Guild remedy for the disasters of modern statesmanship.
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