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Excerpt from Profit-Sharing and the Labour Question At Mr. Bushill srequest, I very gladly write a few words introductory of his work. The sole justification I possess for doing so lies in my having, in 1884, published the first English book containing anything like a general survey of profit-sharing undertakings in industry, agriculture and trade. The fact of my being personally unversed in practical business was in some quarters seized on in order to weaken the effect of my representations, although these largely and avowedly consisted of direct translations from statements made by foreign profit-sharing employers and employed. It gives me, therefore, especial pleasure to be allowed now to introduce an account of a particular instance of successful profit-sharing by a writer whose position absolutely excludes this form of depreciation, while the fact of his firm being an English one cuts a second string of the detractory bow, that profit-sharing may be all very well on the Continent, but will not do in this country." A treatise on, or history of, profit-sharing would be alike out of place in this introduction, but I ask the readers attention to a few general remarks on that mode of remunerating labour, made solely on my own responsibility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.