Evolution of Industry and Organization of Labor

T HE endeavor to untangle and examine certain selected threads in the pattern of history is likely to be about as satisfying as an analysis of an old Dutch tapestry by the process of raveling. The significance of the threads is so much a matter of their integration that the whole is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts. Consequently, to take a small number of factors out of the totality of economic history and analyze and evaluate their relationship is a project which can be undertaken only when there is a persistent and intruding acceptance of the proposition that economic development is organicthat all variables are interdependent. Even that may not be sufficient, for economic change is but one segment of the total tapestry of the cultural and social history of civilization

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