The instinct of workmanship, and the state of industrial arts

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THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP AND THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS
BY THORSTEIN VEBLEN AUTHOR OF “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS”
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1914
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Copyright, 1914, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1914.
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The following essay attempts an analysis of such correlation as is visible between industrial use and wont and those other institutional facts that go to make up any given phase of civilisation. It is assumed that in the growth of culture, as in its current maintenance, the facts of technological use and wont are fundamental and definitive, in the sense that they underlie and condition the scope and method of civilisation in other than the technological respect, but not in such a sense as to preclude or overlook the degree in which these other conventions of any given civilisation in their turn react on the state of the industrial arts.