ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines classical doctrine of production on which all the earlier conceptions of industrial democracy based themselves. The industrial democrats of to-day, whilst repudiating many of its details, have endeavoured to re-establish in the form of revised versions. An accessory feature, in many ways more important, was the fact that the slave-owning classes, besides intensifying to the utmost the labour of the democracy which worked for them, were to a degree far greater able to increase its numbers. One of the most obvious difficulties which besets the idea of democracy as applied to political government; but in the sphere of technical production it is practically much more formidable. A rudimentary example of it may be seen in the Trade Union policy which forbids a bricklayer, specially alert and dexterous, to lay more bricks in a day than can be laid with ease by the great mass of his fellows.
