Chapter 22: Other Protective Labor and Social Legislation

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*_Adams_ and _Sumner_, chs. V, sec. 3, XII, sec. 5, XIII, sec. 3.

_Addams, Jane_, Child labor legislation, a requisite for industrial
efficiency. A. A. A., 25: 542-550. 1905.

_Commons_, chs. XIV, XIX, XX, XXII, XXIII, XXVI, XXXVIII.

*_Commons_ and _Andrews_, Chs. VI, VII, IX.

_Fisher, W. C._, The field of workmen's compensation in the United
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_Leiserson, W. M._, The movement for public labor exchanges. J. P.
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_Rubinow, I. M._, The problem of unemployment. J. P. E., 21:
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_Rubinow, I. M._, Subsidized unemployment insurance. Ibid., 412-431.
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_United States Bureau of Labor Statistics_, Bul. 159. 1915.

QUESTIONS.

1. What classes of economic goods or services are regulated by law and
why?

2. Is there any likeness between trade-unions and tariffs? Between
tariffs and factory legislation?

3. What reasons are given in justification of laws closing barber
shops on Sundays?

4. May a person owning a lot on a residence street of a city erect a
glue factory on it?

5. What have you noted as to the benefits or hardships of restricting
child labor in factories?

6. In what kinds of social legislation is the federal character of our
government a serious bar to experimentation? Show clearly the reasons
why.

7. If population became stationary, neither increasing nor decreasing
in numbers, and if methods were discovered which would render possible
the production of the same amount of wealth per year as at present
with only half the force of laborers employed, and if the average
labor day were not shortened, would there not be a great and
apparently permanent lack of employment? Discuss thoroughly and give
reasons for your answer.

8. In what sense is the "unemployment," so manifest in a period of
industrial depression, evidence that the number of workers is "in
excess of the work to be done"?