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SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BOOKS.
WELFARE WORK.
Employers’ Experiments for Improving Working Conditions inFactories. By E. Dorothea Proud, B.A., C.B.E. With a Forewordby the Right Hon. David Lloyd George, P.C., M.P.,Prime Minister. Demy 8vo. Second Edition. 8s. 6d. net.
Mr. Lloyd George says: “Her knowledge of welfare work is unique, and her bookbids fair to become the standard work on the subject. I warmly commend it toemployers, to Lady Superintendents, and to all those members of the general publicwho care for the welfare of the workers in our factories.”
WOMEN IN MODERN INDUSTRY.
By B. L. Hutchins. With a Chapter on the 1906 Wage Census byJ. J. Mallon. 4s. 6d. net.
“Miss Hutchins’s book, which attempts for the first time to give a coherent accountof women’s labour problems, will be found of great value in helping us to understandthe question.... It is an excellent piece of work, upon which she is much to becongratulated, and the bulk of it will be of permanent value.”—The Times.
THE GIRL IN INDUSTRY.
A Scientific Investigation. By D. J. Collier. With a Forewordand Introduction by B. L. Hutchins. 9d. net.
“... an important book from the point of view of applied economics, but, in thelight of the coming continuation schools, it is scarcely less important in education.”—TheTimes.
DOWNWARD PATHS.
An Enquiry into the Causes which contribute to the making of theProstitute. With a Foreword by A. Maude Royden. SecondEdition. 3s. net.
“... the authors treat their very difficult and complicated problem with sympathy,earnestness and moderation.”—The Spectator.
A RATIONAL WAGES SYSTEM.
Some Notes on the Method of Paying the Worker a Reward forEfficiency in Addition to Wages. By Henry Atkinson, Memberof the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Engineer Expert to theMixed Tribunal, Cairo. Paper, 1s. net. Cloth, 1s. 6d. net.
“Certainly deserves the earnest consideration of both masters and men.... We trustthis book will sell by the hundreds of thousands, for it deals boldly with topics too manypeople try to shelve as disagreeable.”—Practical Engineer.
THE FEEDING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
By M. E. Bulkley, of the London School of Economics. Crown8vo. 4s. 6d. net.
“An admirable statement of the history and present position of the problem.”—NewStatesman.
LIVELIHOOD AND POVERTY.
By A. L. Bowley, Sc.D., Reader in Statistics, University of London,and A. R. Burnett-Hurst, B.Sc., formerly Research Assistant atthe London School of Economics. With an Introduction by R. H.Tawney, B.A. Crown 8vo. 4s. net.
“This book should serve, as Mr. Rowntree’s served in its day, to rivet the publicattention on the problem of low wages. It is emphatically a book which every onewho possesses either patriotism or conscience should study and reflect upon.”—ManchesterGuardian.
LONDON: G. BELL AND SONS, Ltd.