▼ About this page

Title: The Revelation of Britain: A Book for Colonials

Author: Charles C. Reade

In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 78

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Library, Wellington

Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

Share:

Other formats

Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)

TEI XML file

ePub eBook file

Connect

The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 78

Contents

Contents.

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.