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Dorothy George On
Industrialism: 1931
‘It is clearly impossible to draw up a balance-sheet of the goods and ills of
industrialism.
There would be no agreement as to whether its ills, or goods, are increasing or
decreasing. Some enthusiasts chiefly to be found in the United States would
identify industrialization and civilization.
But most people would allow that its results are both good and bad.
In most parts of the
world industrialism has meant an advance in material civilization, a rise in the
standards of living, an improved status, and greater political power for the
humbler classes; it has bettered health, lengthened life, lessened laborious
toil, and brought with it greater leisure.’
Dorothy George,
England in Transition, 1931 (Penguin Books: 1964), p. 164.
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