1. The measure of poverty -- 2. The effects of machinery on the condition of the working-classes -- 3. The influx of population into large towns -- 4. "The sweating system" -- 5. The causes of sweating -- 6. Remedies for sweating -- 7. Over-supply of low-skilled labour -- 8. The industrial...

First published in 1931, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J.A Hobson's analysis of financial distribution in the early years of Twentieth Century Britain. The book focuses on the moral questions that he considered to be important in regard to the economic reforms that were necessary to...