From Workhouse to Westminster: The Life Story of Will Crooks, M.P.Haw, George
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From Workhouse to Westminster: The Life Story of Will Crooks, M.P.
Haw, George
Crooks, William, 1852-1921; Legislators -- Great Britain -- Biography; Social reformers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Reformatory schools, 141
Remand homes, 136
Ritchie, Lord, 105, 137
Rosebery, Lord, 72, 89
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School of Marine Engineering at Poplar, Crooks and the, 101
Scientific starvation, 181
Sheldon, Rev. Charles, 148
Sims, Mr. George R., 148, 255
Slums as investments, 161
Small holdings, 264
South African War, Crooks's opposition to, 201, 263
_Speaker_, The, on the Woolwich by-election, 192, 201
Stanley, The Hon. Maud, 48
Stone-breaking condemned by Crooks, 222
Sutton Poor Law School, Crooks an inmate of the, 11-12
Sweated women, 3, 178, 207
T
Talbot, Bishop, 196
Technical Education Board, The, 100
Technical Education for workhouse children, 124
Trade Unionism and Protection, 217
Trade Unionist, Crooks as a, 43, 53
Tree, Mr. Beerbohm-, 148
U
Unemployed Act, 223, 243, 245
Unemployment schemes, 221, 232, 265
V
_Vanity Fair_ on Crooks, 208, 229
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Wages Fund, The Will Crooks, 75
Watermen, Old, at Poplar, 30
Welby, Lord, 96
Women's enfranchisement, 206
Women's march to Whitehall, The, 249
Women's wages, 178, 207
Woolwich by-election, 186
Woolwich Labour Association, 187
Workmen's drinking habits, Crooks on, 54
Wyckoff, Professor, 48
PRINTED BY CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, LA BELLE SAUVAGE, LONDON, E.C.
20.1009.
Books by George Haw.
CHRISTIANITY AND THE WORKING CLASSES. Edited by George Haw, with
contributions by WILL CROOKS, Canon Barnett, Dr. Horton, and
others.
NO ROOM TO LIVE. The Story of Overcrowded London.
TO-DAY'S WORK. A Popular Treatise on Local Government.
THE ENGLISHMAN'S CASTLE. A Survey of the People's Housing
Conditions in Town and Country.
RELIGIOUS DOUBTS OF THE DEMOCRACY. Edited by George Haw, with
contributions by G. K. Chesterton, George W. E. Russell, Professor
Moulton, and others.
BRITAIN'S HOMES. A Study of the Housing Problem.
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