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  1. Front Matter
    1. Preface to the Issue of 1920
    2. Introduction to the 1902 Edition
    3. Preface
  2. Chapter I: The Diary of an Investigator
  3. Chapter II: The Jews of London
  4. Chapter III: Women's Wages
    1. I. Manual Labour
      1. (a) Time Wages
      2. (b) Task Wages
    2. II. Routine Mental Work
    3. III. Artistic Work
    4. IV. Intellectual Work
    5. Conclusion
  5. Chapter IV: Women and the Factory Acts
  6. Chapter V: The Regulation of the Hours of Labour
  7. Chapter VI: How to Do Away with the Sweating System
    1. Appendix
      1. Landlord's Responsibility for Sanitation
      2. Responsibility of the Employer
  8. Chapter VII: The Reform of the Poor Law
    1. I. State Pensions for the Aged
    2. II. Efficient Education for the Children
    3. III. Collective Provision for the Sick
    4. IV. Public Burial of the Dead
    5. V. — Abolition of the Casual Ward
    6. VI. Reform of Poor Law Machinery
  9. Chapter VIII: The Relationship Between Co-operation and Trade Unionism
  10. Chapter IX: The National Dividend and Its Distribution
  11. Chapter X: The Difficulties of Individualism
    1. The Constant Evolution of Society
    2. 'Social Problems'
    3. Individualism and Collectivism
    4. The New Pressure for Social Reform
    5. Inequality of Income
    6. Can we Dodge the Law of Rent?
    7. The 'Population Question'
    8. The 'Wickedness' of Making any Change
    9. Why Inequality is Bad
    10. The Degradation of Character
    11. The Loss of Freedom
    12. The Growth of Collective Action
    13. Competition
    14. The Lesson of Evolution
    15. The Struggle for Existence between Nations
    16. Argument and Class Bias
    17. Socialism and Liberty
  12. Chapter XI: Socialism: True and False
    1. Utopia-founding
    2. The Easiest Way to Socialism
    3. Trade Sectionalism
    4. Joint-Stock Individualism
    5. Industrial Anarchism
    6. Peasant Proprietorship

Preface

We have collected in the present volume some essays and studies written during the last ten years. Each chapter deals with a separate subject, and is complete in itself. But the different chapters are not without bearing upon each other; and their common standpoint and identical assumptions may, perhaps, be considered to give the book a certain unity which it would otherwise lack.

We have corrected a few errors; brought the statistics up to date, and supplied additional footnotes and references. Otherwise, the chapters stand practically as they were written, with the characteristic imperfections of essays and studies done in the intervals of more sustained work. Some of the ideas here incidentally expressed will be found more elaborately treated in our History of Trade Unionism and Industrial Democracy. On the other hand, some of the points incident- ally alluded to in those works are more fully dealt with in these essays.

Certain of the chapters have appeared, in part, in the Nineteenth Century, Contemporary Review, Economic Journal and Quarterly Journal of Economics, and we are indebted to the editors for permission to reproduce them. The essay upon 'The Jews in East London' was contributed to Mr. Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People, and our thanks are due to Mr. Booth for his consent to its inclusion in this volume.

Sidney and Beatrice Webb.

41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster.
March 1898.

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