Victoria University of Wellington Library
The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 81
Contents
Contents
Page
Introduction
ix
1.
Capital the Working-Man's Server and Helper
13
2.
The Force that makes the Wheels go Round
17
3.
"The Richer the State the Poorer the People"
21
4.
It is Impossible for Wealth to Accumulate without the Working Classes being Benefited
27
5.
Socialism in Practice
32
6.
The National Workshops of
1848
36
7.
The State and the Individual
42
8.
The Family
46
9.
Old-Age Pensions—Cutting-Down Schemes
50
10.
Old-Age Pensions Again
54
11.
State Feeding of Children and the Endowment of Motherhood
58
12.
The old Poor Law
65
13.
The Old Poor Law
(
continued
)
70
14.
What is Value?
76
15.
Sweating and a Minimum Wage
81
16.
The Reserves of Labour
87
17.
The Unemployed
91
18.
What will it Cost? Where is the Money to Come From?
97
19.
Thrift
105
20.
National and Municipal Trading
110
21.
The Lesson of the Roman Empire
116
Appendices
A.
To a Socialist Friend
.
121
B.
National Workshops
125