ABSTRACT
Democracy to-day, in the extended sense of the word, is commonly described as "Industrial "or "Social". These two epithets are often used interchangeably; but implications of the latter differ from those of the former in the fact that they are more comprehensive, and less easy to define. It will be necessary, therefore, to consider Industrial Democracy first, and rigidly exclude, in doing so, all reference to activities which do not pertain to the process of actual industry itself. Now the thinkers may be perfectly right in claiming for the Unionist movement a democratic character of some sort, but the error which they commit is this. They assume that because the action of Unions as a means of augmenting wages is the action of men who happen to be engaged in industry, it must of necessity be in itself industrial.
