Problems of Modern Industry

This volume contains eleven chapters written by either Beatrice or Sidney Webb. Using empirical research methods, with an eye toward reducing economic inequality, they each take up their own unique methodological style to explore the results of a changing economic landscape in England during the end of the 19th century. They look into women's work, labor unions, socialism, anti-poverty policy, economic democracy, individualist worldviews, and more. This is a prime example of early sociological research that aims to serve the public good by using in-depth, multi-faceted, dynamic, and humanizing methods and methodologies.