HUMAN WORK OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR ❦ _Women and Economics, Concerning Children_ _In This Our World_ _The Home_ HUMAN WORK BY CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN [Illustration] NEW YORK McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. MCMIV _Copyright, 1904, by_ McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. Published, May, 1904, N CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY 5 II. MAN AS A FACTOR IN SOCIAL EVOLUTION 19 III. CONCEPT AND CONDUCT 37 IV. SOME FALSE CONCEPTS 59 V. THE NATURE OF SOCIETY (I) 79 VI. THE NATURE OF SOCIETY (II) 99 VII. THE SOCIAL SOUL 125 VIII. THE SOCIAL BODY 157 IX. THE NATURE OF WORK (I) 179 X. THE NATURE OF WORK (II) 203 XI. SPECIALISATION 227 XII. PRODUCTION 249 XIII. DISTRIBUTION 275 XIV. CONSUMPTION (I) 299 XV. CONSUMPTION (II) 321 XVI. OUR POSITION TO-DAY 341 XVII. THE TRUE POSITION 367 HUMAN WORK I: INTRODUCTORY _Summary_