* * * I THE FAULTS OF LABOR Plainly, labor's fault must be found with itself.
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Leaving upon one side the class of skilled labor, a large proportion of our wage-workers are notoriously inefficient.

In the most common tasks one has to watch the average workingman in order to prevent his bungling a job.
Hands are worth little without some brains; as in the work done, so in the pay won.

Our labor is quite as largely uninterested--having no more heart than brains back of the hands.

Work is done mechanically by most workingmen, with little pride in doing it well, and little ambition to be continually doing it better.
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