Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1871)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York, Wiley · leaf 42
am telling you I Work it was; and too much. Butwill you be good enough to make up your minds,once for all, whether it is really work that you want, orrest? I thought you rather objected to your quantityof work;—that you were all for having eight hours ofit instead of ten? You may have twelve… … every link of it swinging loose like a knights chain mail:then yon may have some joy of it afterwards, and pride ;and say you knew the cunning of a mans right hand.But I think it is pay that you want, not work; and it isvery true that pretty ironwork like that does not pay ; butit is pretty, and it…
Conduct of life · Aesthetics · Social problems · Great Britain -- Social conditions 19th century
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