On another note, considering how much early capital and ideas will be atleast partially controlled by the Faerie. And how basic and simple the over all economy for industry is right now. It certainly would make some sense to initially use a type of controlled economic system, as this will let you control more factors as well as progress more efficiently to the next step in development. It might also help let you set some standards on how to deal with workers early on.
Looking at this from a different angle the Faerie should be the foremost experts in technology and for a long time will pretty much utterly dominate, Research, Development and Capital investments. There they can quickly obsolete for some time old processes at what seems virtually at will and thus run the most competitive branches, this means they should get to set a lot of the standards of behaviour. Competing with out support of Faerie engineers, specialists, etc will for a long time probably be very hard indeed.
This should mean they'll impart a substantial imprint of their cultural values on how manufacturing should be run and setup, including how to treat the workers. Once this gains a critical mass, trying to run a robber baron style theme might become substantially harder, as you are now attacking a well entrenched and funded culture of workers.
Combined with the increased education needed once you start reaching some of the higher tech levels, like say late 19th Century. This should hopefully be enough to keep the government from not atleast some what supporting the workers in future conflicts with large capital holders. (Especially as the Faerie should be some what responsible for setting up the modern bureaucracy and its standards in the first place, as well.... that too will have been one of their ideas one expects)
I guess this isn't really a perfect solution, but it's something atleast.
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I think another big question as offered up by Screwball is, is how large a conflict with the nobility they'll eventually develop. As Screwball noted, there could be a fair deal of conflict in that after all. Though it may not turn out quite as bad as he postulates there. At times once the central state is strong enough, further nobility has been declawed in more peaceful manners.
Taxing the holding of land for instance, which thus gets you to free up a lot of noble land over time, as it isn't worthwhile or affordable to hold as much any more. In this regard the exact position between the Faerie and the central state can also be renegotiated over time as needed, rather then using a violent solution. It's even possible that in such negotiations the central state is willing to make some concessions, as the Faerie are effectively an extremely important strategic resource. Their knowledge and drive in science and technology knows no equal after all, so trying to keep them happy a bit wouldn't be unusual. (For instance the state might also make some reforms to its own laws, in return for reduced autonomy, it might even see advantages in making those reforms at times)
Looking at this from a different angle the Faerie should be the foremost experts in technology and for a long time will pretty much utterly dominate, Research, Development and Capital investments. There they can quickly obsolete for some time old processes at what seems virtually at will and thus run the most competitive branches, this means they should get to set a lot of the standards of behaviour. Competing with out support of Faerie engineers, specialists, etc will for a long time probably be very hard indeed.
This should mean they'll impart a substantial imprint of their cultural values on how manufacturing should be run and setup, including how to treat the workers. Once this gains a critical mass, trying to run a robber baron style theme might become substantially harder, as you are now attacking a well entrenched and funded culture of workers.
Combined with the increased education needed once you start reaching some of the higher tech levels, like say late 19th Century. This should hopefully be enough to keep the government from not atleast some what supporting the workers in future conflicts with large capital holders. (Especially as the Faerie should be some what responsible for setting up the modern bureaucracy and its standards in the first place, as well.... that too will have been one of their ideas one expects)
I guess this isn't really a perfect solution, but it's something atleast.
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I think another big question as offered up by Screwball is, is how large a conflict with the nobility they'll eventually develop. As Screwball noted, there could be a fair deal of conflict in that after all. Though it may not turn out quite as bad as he postulates there. At times once the central state is strong enough, further nobility has been declawed in more peaceful manners.
Taxing the holding of land for instance, which thus gets you to free up a lot of noble land over time, as it isn't worthwhile or affordable to hold as much any more. In this regard the exact position between the Faerie and the central state can also be renegotiated over time as needed, rather then using a violent solution. It's even possible that in such negotiations the central state is willing to make some concessions, as the Faerie are effectively an extremely important strategic resource. Their knowledge and drive in science and technology knows no equal after all, so trying to keep them happy a bit wouldn't be unusual. (For instance the state might also make some reforms to its own laws, in return for reduced autonomy, it might even see advantages in making those reforms at times)
