Victoria University of Wellington Library
The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 81
Contents
Contents
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Foreword
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Chapter I
. The Home of Steel.—Life and Labour in Sheffield.—Problems of Industry. The Tragedy of a Worker.
Chapter II
. Preparing for War.—The Making of Armour Plates.—The Building of a Battleship.
Chapter III
. Ten Acres of Hell.—A Night in a Steel Works.—Labour and Production.
Chapter IV
. The Example of Leeds.—A Chapter of the Past.—Individualism v. Municipalism.
Chapter V
. The Message from Bradford.—Social Problems and Industry.—Municipal Enterprise in Evolution.—The Busy Black Worstedopolis.
Chapter VI
. The Textile Family.—A Revelation of Cheap Labour.—Man, Woman, and Child.—On the Hill and in the Valley.
Chapter VII
. Cotton and Waste.—Big Black Manchester.—Relation of Housing to Industry.—The Stain on Modern Civilisation.
Chapter VIII
. Life in Liverpool.—The Curse of Casual Labour.—Difficulties of a Modern Seaport.
Chapter IX
. The Future City.—Port Sunlight and Profit Sharing.—Modern Town Planning.
Chapter X
. The Woman's Movement.—Who are the Suffragettes?—A Girl and Her Army.
Chapter XI
. On the Continent.—Paris and Vienna.—The Creation of Modern Cities.—Transformation and Beauty.
Chapter XII
. London and Berlin.—A Study in Contrasts.—The Course of the Unfolding Century.
Chapter XIII
. The Example of Germany.—Supremacy of the Civic Function.—How the Growth of Cities is Controlled and Directed.