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Subject(s)

• Poor laws—Great Britain [Browse]
• Charities—Great Britain [Browse]
• Poor—Great Britain [Browse]

Related name

• Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943 [Browse]

Series

• Making of the Modern World, Part II : 1851-1914. [More in this series]
• The Making of the Modern World, Part II : 1851-1914

Notes

• Publisher's advertising: 16 p. 4th count, and 32 p., 5th count.
• Reproduction from the The Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface.
• Destitution as a disease of society.
• How to prevent the destitution that arises from sickness.
• Destitution and eugenics.
• How to prevent the destitution arising from child neglect.
• Sweating and unemployment as causes of destitution.
• How to prevent unemployment and under-employment.
• Insurance.
• The enlarged sphere of voluntary agencies in the prevention of destitution.
• The need for a common register and a registrar of public assistance.
• The "moral factor."
• Index.

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OCLC

797291979

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