@booklet {1210, title = {A Mechanistic or a Human Society?}, year = {1943}, note = {

U.S. ed. [New York: Decentralist Press, 1945]], with an \“Introduction\” (2-3) by Richard T. Tamplin.

}, month = {[1943]}, pages = {32 pp.}, publisher = {[Ptd. by The Hereford Times for Wilfred Wellock, Quinton, Birmingham]}, address = {[Hereford, Eng.]}, abstract = {

A pamphlet that decries the dominance of machines and the machine-mentality they produce. The author calls for a simpler life based on traditional English agriculture and decentralization to the village level or a \“land-based democracy\” (15). Cooperation. Regionalism. In his \“Introduction\” to the U.S. ed. Tamplin argues for the use of machines \“more on the behalf of freeing and benefiting man\” (2) and says, \“Our society is itself a great mechanistic structure\” (3). He says he is sure Wellock would agree.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Wilfred Wellock (1879-1972)} }