ABSTRACT
Industry has revolutionized many of the most important human relationships—those between a man and his community, between ‘master’ and ‘man,’ between a man and his fellows engaged in what used to be craftsmanship, between men and women, between young and old, and between the falling numbers of people who work on the land and the increasing numbers of those who do not. Much misinterpretation has been given to the subject of human relationships within industry, as though new words and phrases for old things implied that no one had ever before recognized a problem in this field, or had tried to do anything to solve it. Britain was first, and for longest pre-eminent, in the old Industrial Revolution. The changes which this caused in the human patterns and relationships of the eighteenth-century world, before that Revolution, therefore occurred earlier in Britain and tended to become fixed earlier.
