y, duality of modern, 135
Society, functional organization of, 52
State management, 116, 117
Steel Corporation, 116
Supervision from within, 151
Syndicalism, 130

Taxation, 22
Trusts, Report on, 23

United States, transformation in, 65
Utilitarians, the English, 17
Utility, 16-17

"Vicious Circle," the, 43, 123-138
Voltaire, quoted, 55

Wages and costs, 131
Wages and profits, 78
Wealth, acquisition of, 20 _et seq._; as foundation for public esteem,
35-36; distribution of on basis of function, 77; fallacy of increased,
42-45; how to increase output of, 147; inequality of, 37-38;
limitation of, 36-37; output of, 37-38; production and consumption
of--a contrast, 77-78; waste of, 37-39
Whitley Councils, 110
Women self-supporting, 74
Worker and Spender, 77-78
Workers, collective responsibility of, 154
Workers' control, 128
Workmen, as "hands," 152; present independence of, 145-146;
responsibility of destroyed, 153-154; servants of shareholders,
136-137; treatment of, 152-153

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