Excerpt from Operative Ownership: A System of Industrial Production Based Upon Social Justice and the Rights of Private Property; Designed to Enforce a Just Division Between Capital and Labor of the Wealth Which They Jointly Produce, Enabling Industrial Tool-Users to Become, in Whole or I Arrangements between capital and labor, for participation in profits and for joint ownership, have heretofore been made only as acts Of grace by benevolently disposed capitalists, and in exceptional cases; and it is the purpose of the scheme proposed in this book to provide a way by which the like benefits may hereafter be secured to operatives of industrial establishments gen erally, as matters Of social justice and le gal right, but without violating in the slightest degree the personal or property rights of the capitalist. 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.