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point of view of Mazzini on the agreement of Mirafiori

Today, the "capital" - and this is the current economic ills of society - is the despot of work. Of the three classes form today, economically, the company - "capitalists", ie owners of the means or instruments of labor, land, farms, cash, commodities - entrepreneurs, labor leaders, businessmen, who represent or should represent the intellect - and workers who are manual work - the first, alone, is the master of the field, mistress to promote, delay, speed, heading towards certain ends of work. And its share in the profits of labor, production value, is comparatively determined: the location of the instruments of labor does not change if not between known limits and restricted, and the time, up to a certain extent at least, is his, not at the mercy of the absolute need. The second part is uncertain, dependent on their intellect, their activities, but in particular circumstances, more or less by the development of competition and the flow back or retreat, as a result of events not calculated, the capital. The

of the past, the "workers" is the "wages" determined "prior" to the job and without regard to the profits that come out more or less' business, and the limits between which the salary if I estimated, are determined by the relationship that exists between the work and offered the job, in other words, between the "population" of the workers and the "capital". Now the first tending to the increase and an increase that exceeds generally, if only slightly, the increase in the second, the wage tents, where other causes not interpose themselves, to fall. And time is in the hands of the worker: the financial or political crisis, the sudden introduction of new machinery to the different branches of industry, the irregularities in the production and its excessive accumulation in one direction often inseparable from a little Floodlit competition, the unequal division of the population of workers on certain points or certain business lines, and ten other causes interrupting the work, do not leave the worker's free choice of its terms. On one hand the absolute misery for him, the other the acceptance of any agreement that is being proposed.