ABSTRACT
The workers feel companionship with those who work beside them. If the worker's point of view were dominant in any society, there would be a transformation of the idea of work and therefore reorganization in the practice of work. That point of view, however, is reached, not by abstract theory, but through the experience of the majority of workers who are, in all ages, manual workers; and the worker's point of view must therefore be primarily the position of those who work with their hands. In a modern industrial community those who dominate intellectually are so far separated from the physical contact with the earth and from the muscular experience of the labour upon which civilization depends that they tend to forget or to underrate the essential characteristics of manual labour. The fundamental fact is not that a man is or is not a manual worker; what is fundamental is the attitude he takes to the work he does.
