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Abstract/Sommario: General causes of the rapid development of the family allowance system - The principle of a family wage - Historical sketch - Should the family allowance be regarded as a part of wages? - The family allowance in practice and the mechanism of the compensation fund - The labour attitude towards the family allowance system - The bachelor standpoint - Equal pay for men and women and the feminist standpoint - Effect of the allowance system on the general level of wages - The family allowanc ...; [Leggi tutto...] General causes of the rapid development of the family allowance system - The principle of a family wage - Historical sketch - Should the family allowance be regarded as a part of wages? - The family allowance in practice and the mechanism of the compensation fund - The labour attitude towards the family allowance system - The bachelor standpoint - Equal pay for men and women and the feminist standpoint - Effect of the allowance system on the general level of wages - The family allowance and the population question - The social work of the funds - The family allowance in agriculture - State compulsion - Estimate of the value of the allowance system and conclusion.

Abstract/Sommario: Factory legislation prior to 1891 - Factory legislation 1891-1924: a general survey - The regulation of dangerous trades - The regulation of the industries using lead - The regulation of other trades dangerous to health - Regulations for safety - General advance during the period - The war period and its effects upon factory legislation - International action - The enforcement of the law - Trade unions and whitley councils in relation to factory legislation - Opinion and propaganda - O ...; [Leggi tutto...] Factory legislation prior to 1891 - Factory legislation 1891-1924: a general survey - The regulation of dangerous trades - The regulation of the industries using lead - The regulation of other trades dangerous to health - Regulations for safety - General advance during the period - The war period and its effects upon factory legislation - International action - The enforcement of the law - Trade unions and whitley councils in relation to factory legislation - Opinion and propaganda - Other industrial legislation of the period - Review and summary.

Abstract/Sommario: Vital Statistics - Population statistics, birth and death rates - Individualism and laiser faire - The growth of commerce - Agriculture - Improvement of towns - Water supply and drainage - The 18th century doctor and the british pioneers of public health - The hospital and dispensary movement - General hygiene and midwifery - Rickets and scurvy - Antiseptics, segregation, leprosy and plague - Smallpox in the 18th century - The anti-typhus campaign and the fever hospital movement - Mala ...; [Leggi tutto...] Vital Statistics - Population statistics, birth and death rates - Individualism and laiser faire - The growth of commerce - Agriculture - Improvement of towns - Water supply and drainage - The 18th century doctor and the british pioneers of public health - The hospital and dispensary movement - General hygiene and midwifery - Rickets and scurvy - Antiseptics, segregation, leprosy and plague - Smallpox in the 18th century - The anti-typhus campaign and the fever hospital movement - Malaria-general summary - The period 1815-1848.

Abstract/Sommario: The growth of unemployment insurance - Arrangements, supplementary and special schemes - Criticism of the present scheme - Unemployment insurance by industry examined - Unemployment insurance as part of social insurance.

Abstract/Sommario: Report of the german advisory commission on unemployment - The combating of unemployment by the creation of employment - Unemployment insurance and relief - Recommendations of the commission.

Abstract/Sommario: The history of plantation rubber - Background and development of the Stevenson plan for the restriction of the supply of crude rubber - Price movements - Administration of the Stevenson plan - Effect on production countries - Effect on the consuming country - Effect on the investing country - Theoretical cosiderations.

Abstract/Sommario: Modern changes in methods of marketing - The combination movement, unfair trade, and the common law - Development of legislative and administrative - The regulation of price policies - The regulation of sales promotion policies - The regulation of trade relation policies - Public policy and business standards.

Abstract/Sommario: The motor fuel problem - The composition of petroleums - General outline of the manufacture of petroleum products - Fractional distillation - Fluid flow and heart-transfer - Refinery equipment for distilling petroleum - Towers, dephlegmators, steam-stills, condensers, heat-exchangers, coolers, and other refinery equipment - The thermal reactions of hydrocarbons - Cracking processes - The chemical treatment of gasoline - Natural-gas gasoline - Alcohol, a motor fuel of the future - Compo ...; [Leggi tutto...] The motor fuel problem - The composition of petroleums - General outline of the manufacture of petroleum products - Fractional distillation - Fluid flow and heart-transfer - Refinery equipment for distilling petroleum - Towers, dephlegmators, steam-stills, condensers, heat-exchangers, coolers, and other refinery equipment - The thermal reactions of hydrocarbons - Cracking processes - The chemical treatment of gasoline - Natural-gas gasoline - Alcohol, a motor fuel of the future - Composite and miscellaneous motor fuels - Gasoline specifications and quality - Distillation in the laboratory - Methods of analysis - Useful physical data and tables.

Abstract/Sommario: The backgrounds of the movement - The growth of the movement, 1920-1926 - The purpose of organization of labor banks - Circumstances and methods of organization - Unique features of labor banks - Relations and attitudes - Policies and problems - The success of the movement (banking standpoint) - The success of the movement (labor standpoint).

Abstract/Sommario: Localization - The geography of raw material consumed in New England Mills - The part player by power in the various stages of New England cotton manufacturing - The status og geographic factors in a present-day interpretation of New England cotton manifacturing - Certain economic aspects and adjustments which characterize the New England cotton textyile industry.