The Disinherited Family: A Plea for the Endowment of the Family |
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A. L. Bowley actual amount Australia average basic wage birth-rate Caisses cent child claim clothing Committee cost of living dependent children direct provision Dr Bowley earnings economic effect employed employers employment endowment equal pay estimate eugenists existing experience fact family allowances family wage father fear figures francs grade Grenoble household human needs husband Ibid income increase industry J. S. Mill Josiah Stamp Labour Party less living wage maintenance male marriage married men's ment million minimum minimum wage mother necessary number of children occupations opinion paid parents payment Poor Law population poverty present system principle probably production proportion proposal providing for families question rates reason Report Roubaix Rowntree's scheme secure share shew shewn Sidney Webb social South Wales tion Trade Unions unmarried wage bill wage-earners War Cabinet week whole widows wife wives and children woman working-class young
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Page 166 - Conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State.
Page 3 - A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race 28 of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.
Page 22 - They must write no letters to absent children, for they cannot afford to pay the postage. They must never contribute anything to their church or chapel, or give any help to a neighbour which costs them money. They cannot save, nor can they join sick club or trade union, because they cannot pay the necessary subscriptions. The children must have no pocket-money for dolls, marbles, or sweets.
Page 4 - Though we met few people without doors, yet within we saw the houses full of lusty fellows, some at the dye-vat, some at the loom, others dressing the cloths ; the women and children carding, or spinning; all employed, from the youngest to the oldest; scarce anything above four years old, but its hands were sufficient for its own support.
Page 22 - A family living upon the scale allowed for in this estimate must never spend a penny on railway fare or omnibus. They must never go into the country unless they walk. They must never purchase a halfpenny newspaper or spend a penny to buy a ticket for a popular concert. They must write no letters to absent children, for they cannot afford to pay the postage. They must never contribute anything to their church or chapel, or give any help to a neighbour which costs them money.
Page 163 - Let us, said he, make relief in cases where there are a number of children, a matter of right and an honour, instead of a ground for opprobrium and contempt. This will make a large family a blessing and not a curse ; and this will draw a proper line of distinction between those who are able to provide for themselves by their...
Page 171 - The actual cost of living according to reasonable standards of comfort, including all matters comprised in the ordinary expenditure of a household, for a man with a wife and three children...
Page 152 - ... each kind of work is obtained by numerous extras and deductions corresponding to variations from a standard article or process with specified price — a standard which is itself far from simple. Here, for instance, is, or was, the definition of the standard woman's boot: " Button or Balmoral, 1£ in., military heel, puff toe; 7 in. at back seam of leg machine-sewn, channels down or brass rivets, pumps or welts, finished round strip or black waste.
Page 9 - Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
Page 89 - Such being the common tendency of human nature; the almost unlimited power which present social institutions give to the man over at least one human being — the one with whom he resides, and whom he has always present — this power seeks out and evokes the latent germs of selfishness in the remotest corners of his nature — fans its faintest sparks and smouldering embers — offers to him a licence for the indulgence of those points of his original character which in all other relations he would...