Chapter XI: Consequences

The governance of the rich 141 The direction of life and labour through expenditure 143 The cotton trade and the fate of its products 144 The demand for woollens 145 The call for boots 147 The waste of labour of nominally useful workmen 149 The parable of the temporary supper-room 149 The parable of the Ascot frock 151 Mr Rowntree's primary poverty line 153 The possible call for commodities by the poor 154 The agricultural labourer's call 155 The boot employee as a customer for the textile employee 156 The Error of Distribution connotes the misdirection and degradation of labour 156

CHAPTER XII THE WASTE OF CAPITAL

The national accumulations small in relation to the national income 159 More evidences of poverty than of wealth 159 The moral of oversea investments 160 Six thousand millions of capital wasted in forty years 163 The demand for luxuries misdirects capital 164 The waste of capital in the game of competition 166 The waste of capital in weak and bogus company promotion 166

BOOK II TOWARDS ORGANIZATION

CHAPTER XIII THE GOLDEN KEY

More trade and a better distribution 171 The social problem must be discussed with reference to the Error of Distribution 172