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All this can be done at comparatively small cost.
The men in the employ of a great establishment can be taught a new interest in their task as they learn to understand its processes and the relation of these processes to society at large, which can easily be done by lectures, etc.
Such work as this is a work that demands the leadership, the organizing power, which the employer can best furnish.
At the last session of the Social Science Association an interesting paper sketched some of these efforts.
In what wiser way could our wealthy manufacturers use a portion of the money won for them by the labor which has exhausted its own interest in its task? Such personal interest on the part of employers in their employees leads up to a clue to that other branch of the uninterestedness of labor--its lack of identification with the welfare of capital--its lack of any feeling of loyalty toward the capitalist.
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