Work and Wages ~ Paperback ~ Thomas Brassey

Excerpt from Work and Wages: The Reward of Labour and the Cost of Work, Founded on the Experiences of the Late Mr. Brassey The re-editing of my old book on Work and Wages, at the date of publication so cordially and favourably received, has proved a far harder task than had been anticipated. I had thought simply to reprint; I have had to a great extent to re-write; and the demand has been too heavy for a worn veteran. I might well have desisted. It had probably been better to commit the matter to a young man, free from other calls, fresh in body and in intellect. I have stuck to the job, inspired chiefly by an undying love for my father, whose qualities and whose memory I revere more and more as the years go by. In so far as his - or, indeed, any - name can survive through the mists which enshroud all things after the lapse of fifty years, I should wish my father to be remembered chiefly as he is represented in the portrait so admirably drawn by his friend and biographer. Sir Arthur Helps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.