Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I PROPERTY THE MAIN CONDITION OF SURVIVAL. THE GENERAL PROPOSITION STATED
- CHAPTER II THE SAME CONSIDERED HISTORICALLY. PRIMITIVE FORMS OF SOCIETY AND THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY
- CHAPTER III ENGLISH VILLENAGE
- CHAPTER IV THE BLACK DEATH AND THE DIVORCE OF THE LABOURER FROM THE LAND
- CHAPTER V THE INCREASE OF SHEER-FARMING, AND THE GROWTH OF A PROLETARIATE
- CHAPTER VI TOWN LIFE AND THE TRADE GILDS
- CHAPTER VII SOCIAL LEGISLATION AND THE POOR LAW
- CHAPTER VIII THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER IX THE THEORY OF WAGES
- CHAPTER X PRIVATE PROPERTY AND POPULATION
- CHAPTER XI THE MODERN ASPECT OF THE POOR LAW
- CHAPTER XII THE POOR LAW, continued
- CHAPTER XIII INSURANCE A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE POOR LAW
- CHAPTER XIV SOME FORMS OF SOCIALISTIC LEGISLATION
- CHAPTER XV THE ETHICAL ASPECT OF THE QUESTION
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I PROPERTY THE MAIN CONDITION OF SURVIVAL. THE GENERAL PROPOSITION STATED
- CHAPTER II THE SAME CONSIDERED HISTORICALLY. PRIMITIVE FORMS OF SOCIETY AND THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY
- CHAPTER III ENGLISH VILLENAGE
- CHAPTER IV THE BLACK DEATH AND THE DIVORCE OF THE LABOURER FROM THE LAND
- CHAPTER V THE INCREASE OF SHEER-FARMING, AND THE GROWTH OF A PROLETARIATE
- CHAPTER VI TOWN LIFE AND THE TRADE GILDS
- CHAPTER VII SOCIAL LEGISLATION AND THE POOR LAW
- CHAPTER VIII THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER IX THE THEORY OF WAGES
- CHAPTER X PRIVATE PROPERTY AND POPULATION
- CHAPTER XI THE MODERN ASPECT OF THE POOR LAW
- CHAPTER XII THE POOR LAW, continued
- CHAPTER XIII INSURANCE A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE POOR LAW
- CHAPTER XIV SOME FORMS OF SOCIALISTIC LEGISLATION
- CHAPTER XV THE ETHICAL ASPECT OF THE QUESTION
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- The English Poor , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1889