Excerpt from Saint George, Vol. 9 Another drawback must be mentioned. The changes in methods of manufacture are rapid, and no process now requiring great skill and practice of hand is safe from the invasion of machinery. The boy who has been apprenticed to a special trade with special hand processes, sometimes is, always runs the risk of being, left in possession of a useless and dead trade, with possibly less power of turning to other occupation than is shown by the youth who has not been tied down to a specialised process. The assumptions often made or implied in the arguments of those who advocate an extension of the apprenticeship system, that in many trades such extension is possible, and that the skilled worker, who has learned his work as an apprentice. 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.