In many manufacturing lines, the joint stock company had become the prevailing organization, but even in these fields the element that so characterizes our own age, that of combination, was exerting practically no influence.

在许多生产线中， 股份公司已成为占主导地位的组织， 但即使在这些领域中， 我们这个时代的特征要素， 即联合要素， 实际上也没有发挥任何影响。