The Claims of Labour
by Sir Arthur Helps
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About this eBook
- Author
- Helps, Arthur, Sir, 1813-1875
- Title
- The Claims of Labour: An essay on the duties of the employers to the employed
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1845 William Pickering edition by David Price
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
- Subject
- Working class
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 30238
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30238
- Release Date
- October 12, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Claims of Labour.
- 2.TO HENRY TAYLOR, ESQ.
- 3.THE CLAIMS OF LABOUR. — CHAPTER I. Masters and Men . — CHAPTER II. Social Government . — CHAPTER III. Labour in Factories . — 1. The Mill . — 2. The School-room . — 3. The Playground . — 4. The Workman’s Home . — V. The Town . — CHAPTER IV. Sources of Benevolence . — APPENDIX.
- 4.II. AN ESSAY ON THE MEANS OF IMPROVING THE HEALTH AND INCREASING THE COMFORT OF THE LABOURING CLASSES. — CHAP. I. Distress amongst the labouring Classes . — CHAP. II. Remedies and Reflections suggested by the Health of Towns Report . — 1. Ventilation . — 2. Sewerage . — 3. Supply of Water . — 4. Building of Houses . — CHAP. III. By what Means the Remedies may be effected . — CHAP. IV. In what Spirit the Remedies are to be effected . — APPENDIX. — DR. ARNOTT TO THE AUTHOR, ON THE SUBJECT OF VENTILATION. — THE FOUR NECESSARIES. — THE TWO NOXIOUS AGENTS.
- 5.Footnotes:
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