List of Authorities.

By far the most valuable general work of reference upon Problems of Poverty is Charles Booth’s Labour and Life of the People (Williams & Norgate).  By the side of this work on London may be set Mr Rowntree’s Poverty:  A Story of Town Life (Macmillan).  A large quantity of valuable material exists in The Report of the Industrial Remuneration Conference, and in the Reports of the Lords’ Committee on the Sweating System and of the Labour Commission.  Among shorter and more accessible works dealing with the industrial causes of poverty and the application of industrial remedies, Toynbee’s Industrial Revolution (Rivington); Gibbins’ Industrial History of England (University Extension Series, Methuen & Co.); and Jevons’The State in Relation to Labour (English Citizen Series), will be found most useful.  For a clear understanding of the relation of economic theory to the facts of labour and poverty, J.E.  Symes’ Political Economy (Rivington), and Marshall’s Economies of Industryare specially recommended.

Among the large mass of books and pamphlets bearing on special subjects connected with Problems of Poverty, the following are most useful.  An asterisk is placed against the names of those which deserve special attention, and which are easily accessible.

Sweating and Its Causes.

* Booth, Labour and Life of the People.

* Final Report of Lords’ Committee on the Sweating System.

Marx, “Capital,” chap. xv., Machinery and Modern Industry
(Sonnenschein).

Burnett, Report to the Board of Trade on Sweating (Blue-Book, 1887).

“Socialism,” Fabian Essays (Walter Scott).

Booth, Pauperism and the Endowment of Old Age (Macmillan).

J. A. Spender, The State and Pensions in Old Age (Sonnenschein).

J. T. Arlidge, Hygiene of Occupations (Rivington).

Co-Operation and Labour Organization.

* Webb, History of Trade Unionism (Longman).

* Howell, Conflicts of Capital and Labour (Chatto & Windus).

* Burnett, Report of Trade Unions (Blue-Book).

Brentano, Gilds and Trade Unions (Truebner).

* Baernreither, Associations of English Working-men.

Acland and Jones, Working-men Co-operators.

Gilman, Profit-sharing between Employer and Employed (Macmillan).

Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Annual.

Potter, Co-operative Movement in Great Britain (Sonnenschein).

* Webb, Industrial Democracy (Longman).

* Schloss, Methods of Industrial Remuneration (Williams & Norgate).

Chartiable Work and Poor Law, &c.

* Aschrott, The English Poor Law System (Knight).