Editor's Preface
Contents
Introduction to the Sanitary Report of 1842
I. Principles of Legislation
II. Common Lodging-Houses
III. Recapitulation of Conclusions
Introduction to the Poor Law Reports of 1834 and 1909
I. The Overseers
II. Magistrates
III. National Charge
IV. Remedial Measures
I. Review of Existing Conditions and Proposed Changes
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress (1909): Minority Report
I. The Scheme of Reform
II. Schemes Rejected
III. Scheme Recommended
IV. Conditions of Eligibility for Public Assistance
V. Disfranchisement
VI. The Sphere of Voluntary Agencies
VII. The Practical Application of the Scheme
VIII. Some Theoretical Objections Answered
Part 2: The Destitution of the Able-Bodied
I. The National Labour Exchange
II. The Absorption of the Surplus
III. Regularization of the National Demand for Labour
IV. Provision for the Unemployed
V. The Ministry of Labour
VI. "Utopian?"