_Wise, E. F._, Wage boards in England. A. E. Rev., 2: 1-20. 1912. QUESTIONS. 1. If you can do more work in two hours than in one, can you do more continuously in sixteen consecutive hours than in eight? 2. What determines the maximum study time for the earnest student? 3. When does an industrious man stop working on his own farm, and why? 4. If production is reduced one-fourth by shorter hours, is "work made" to that degree for the unemployed? 5. Defend the minimum wage policy from the workman's point of view, and state the employers' objections thereto. 6. Suppose it were proposed to establish by law a universal nine-hour day for men. (a) Under what conditions would you consider such a law socially beneficial? (b) What other agencies might accomplish the ends which such a law is designed to effect? (c) What are the chief social and economic effects which you would expect from such a law? CHAPTER 22 OTHER PROTECTIVE LABOR AND SOCIAL LEGISLATION REFERENCES. *_Adams_ and _Sumner_, chs. V, sec. 3, XII, sec. 5, XIII, sec. 3. _Addams, Jane_, Child labor legislation, a requisite for industrial efficiency. A. A. A., 25: 542-550. 1905. _Commons_, chs. XIV, XIX, XX, XXII, XXIII, XXVI, XXXVIII. *_Commons_ and _Andrews_, Chs. VI, VII, IX. _Fisher, W. C._, The field of workmen's compensation in the United States. A. E. Rev., 5: 221-278. 1915. _Leiserson, W. M._, The movement for public labor exchanges. J. P. E., 23: 707-716. 1915. _Pigou, A. C._, Unemployment. 1914. _Rubinow, I. M._, The problem of unemployment. J. P. E., 21: 313-331. 1913. _Rubinow, I. M._, Subsidized unemployment insurance. Ibid., 412-431. 1913. _Sumner, H. L._, and _Merritt, E. A._, Child labor legislation in the United States. 1915. _United States Bureau of Labor Statistics_, Bul. 159. 1915. QUESTIONS. 1. What classes of economic goods or services are regulated by law and why? 2. Is there any likeness between trade-unions and tariffs? Between tariffs and factory legislation? 3. What reasons are given in justification of laws closing barber shops on Sundays? 4. May a person owning a lot on a residence street of a city erect a glue factory on it? 5. What have you noted as to the benefits or hardships of restricting child labor in factories? 6. In what kinds of social legislation is the federal character of our government a serious bar to experimentation? Show clearly the reasons why.