Round About a Pound a Week
by Mrs. Pember Reeves
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About this eBook
- Author
- Pember Reeves, Mrs., 1865-1953
- Title
- Round about a Pound a Week
- Credits
- Produced by MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
- Subject
- London (England) -- Economic conditions
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 58691
- Release Date
- January 13, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS — ROUND ABOUT A POUND A WEEK
- 4.CHAPTER I THE DISTRICT
- 5.CHAPTER II THE PEOPLE
- 6.CHAPTER III HOUSING — Thirty-one Families with Three or More Children taken within the Investigation. — Thirty-nine Families with Three or More Children taken from without the Investigation. — APPENDIX A LIST OF THIRTY-ONE FAMILIES, WITHIN THE INVESTIGATION, FROM WHICH TABLE OF COMPARISON IS COMPILED. — APPENDIX B LIST OF THIRTY-NINE FAMILIES WITH THREE OR MORE CHILDREN, OUTSIDE THE INVESTIGATION, FROM WHICH TABLE OF COMPARISON IS COMPILED
- 7.CHAPTER IV FURNITURE—SLEEPING ACCOMMODATION—EQUIPMENT FOR COOKING AND BATHING
- 8.CHAPTER V THRIFT
- 9.CHAPTER VI BUDGETS
- 10.CHAPTER VII FOOD: CHIEF ARTICLES OF DIET
- 11.CHAPTER VIII BUYING, STORING, AND CARING FOR FOOD
- 12.CHAPTER IX ACTUAL MENUS OF SEVERAL WORKING MEN’S FAMILIES
- 13.CHAPTER X AMOUNT SPENT A HEAD ON FOOD—PER WEEK, PER DAY
- 14.CHAPTER XI THE POOR AND MARRIAGE
- 15.CHAPTER XII MOTHERS’ DAYS
- 16.CHAPTER XIII THE CHILDREN
- 17.CHAPTER XIV THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT OF WORK
- 18.CHAPTER XV THE STANDARD OF COMFORT
- 19.CHAPTER XVI THE STATE AS GUARDIAN
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