SOURCE: The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. XI, December, 1902-September, 1903, pp. 169-171.

In the following essay, Arbuthnot reviews Democracy and Social Ethics with a focus on its economic and political insights.

Among the matters of particularly economic interest in Miss Addams's [Democracy and Social Ethics] is the discussion of the domestic service problem, in the chapter on "Household Adjustment" The family has given up to the factory most of the manufacture which contributes to the welfare of its members, but it retains the preparation of food and ministration to personal comfort, as essential to family life. This domestic industry is out of line with economic development, and is "ill-adjusted and belated." As a result the household employee is more or less isolated in the social world with whose growing democratic ideas the factory system is in harmony. She is discriminated against by the young men of her acquaintance...