Chapter XI: Possible Remedies—general Principles

Remedies must take into account past and present conditions 194
Industrial tendencies 194
Concentration of capital and labor 194
Specialization of labor 195
Associations for mutual benefit 195
Specialization of education 195
Profit sharing 196
Industrial independence of women 196
Helping persons to help themselves 196
Publicity in business affairs 197
The question at issue 198
Impossibility of finding a panacea 199
General measures 199
Truer theoretical conception of place of household employments 199
A more just estimate of their practical importance 200
Removal of prejudice against housework 201
Correction of misconceptions in regard to remuneration for women’s
work 201
Summary of general principles 203

CHAPTER XII

POSSIBLE REMEDIES—IMPROVEMENT IN SOCIAL CONDITION

Social disadvantages 204
Possibility of removing them 204
Provision for social enjoyment 205
Abolishing the word “servant” 207
Disuse of the Christian name in address 209
Regulation of use of the cap and apron 209
Abandoning of servility of manner 210
Principles involved in freeing domestic service from social
objections 211