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Your Pay Envelope

Name: Your Pay Envelope
Author: John Richard Meader

John Richard Meader

Read by KevinS, Michele Fry, mleigh, Yoganandh T, Lisa B. and Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025) · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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I. The Problem Stated (9:09)
II. What Socialism Is and Isn’t (11:57)
III. The Worker’s Wage (16:51)
IV. How the “Robbing” Is Done (15:14)
V. Your Own Pay Envelope (14:32)
VI. You “Wage Slaves”! (14:21)
VII. Your Boss Under Socialism (13:30)
VIII. Some More “Equality” (10:55)
IX. A Few “Minor Details” (14:41)
X. Labor’s Full Product (18:20)
XI. Is Wretchedness Increasing? (23:23)
XII. The Class Struggle (15:14)
XIII. Shall We Take It or Pay for It? (21:58)
XIV. The Revolution (17:21)
XV. What We are Promised (21:29)
XVI. What’s Wrong with the World? (13:24)
XVII. The Remedy (16:51)