Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the PoorHobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
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Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor
Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
Poor -- Great Britain; Sweatshops -- Great Britain; Working class -- Great Britain
_Report of Committee on National Provident Insurance_ (Blue-Book, 1887).
Socialistic Legislation.
Ensor, _Modern Socialism_ (Harpers).
* Jevons, _The State in Relation to Labour_.
Webb, _Socialism in England_ (Swan Sonnenschein).
Hyndman, _Historical Basis of Socialism in England_ (Kegan Paul).
* "Socialism" (_Fabian Essays_).
* Toynbee, _Industrial Revolution_ (Rivington).
Kirkup, _An Inquiry into Socialism_ (Longman).
Movements of Capital.
* Marx, "Capital," vol. ii., ch. xv.
* Baker, _Monopolies and the People_ (Putnams).
"Socialism," _Fabian Essays_.
Macrosty, _Trust and the State_ (Grant Richards).
Ely, _Monopolies and Trusts_ (Macmillan).
The Measure of Poverty.
*Giffen, _Economic Inquiries and Studies _(Bell).
Mulhall, _Dictionary of Statistics_ (Routledge).
Bowley, _National Progress in Wealth and Trade_(King).
* Board of Trade Memoranda, _British and Foreign Trade and Industrial
Conditions_ [cd. 1761 and 2237].
_Statistical Abstract of the United Kingdom_ [cd. 1727].
* _Census of England and Wales: General Report_, 1901 [cd. 2174].
* Leone Levi, _Wages and Earnings of the Working-Classes_ (Murray).
* _Report of the Industrial Remuneration Conference_ (Cassell).
Giffen, _Growth of Capital_ (Bell).
Valpy, _An Inquiry into the Conditions and Occupations of the People in
Central London_.
Footnotes
[1] This sum includes an allowance for the part of the wage of domestic
servants, shop-attendants, &c. paid in kind.
[2] Leone Levi's _Wages and Earnings of the Working-Classes_, p. II.
[3] _Labour and Life of the People_, vol. i. p. 38.
[4] _Poverty: A Study of Town Life_. (Macmillan & Co.)
[5] By Mr P.H. Mann in _Sociological Papers_. (Macmillan.)
[6] Cf. _An Inquiry into the Conditions and Occupations of the People in
Central London_, R. A. Valpy.
[7] This statement is borne out by _A Return of Expenditure of Working-
Men_, for 1889, published by the Labour Department of the Board of
Trade.
[8] See two interesting papers, "Our Farmers in Chains," by the Rev.
Harry Jones (_National Review_, April and July, 1890).
[9] Arnold White: _The Problems of a Great City_, p. 159.
[10] Marshall's _Principles of Economics_, II. ch. iv. §2.
[11] De Tocqueville, _Ancient Régime_, ch. xvi.
[12] _Report of the Industrial Remuneration Conference_, 1886, p. 429.
[13] Cannan's _Elementary Political Economy_, part ii. § 15.
[14] _Industrial Remuneration Congress Report_, p. 153. Mr. W. Owen.
[15] _Economics of Industry_, p. 111.
[16] _Principles of Economics_, pp. 314, 316.
[17] Kirkup, _Inquiry into Socialism_, p. 72.
[18] Booth's _Labour and Life of the People, _vol. i. Part. III. ch. ii.
_Influx of Population, _by H. Llewellyn Smith. A most valuable paper,
from which many of the facts here stated have been drawn.
[19] The official estimate is not precise, since our statistics of
emigration refer only to non-European countries.
[20] _Labour and Life of the People_, vol. i. p. 237.
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