Download or read book Social Studies (Classic Reprint) written by R. Heber Newton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Social Studies The labor question coming on two sides of it. 1. Faults of labor (i) Inefficiency and lack of interest in its work(2) Lack of identification with its employers(3) Thriftlessness(4) Lack of power of combination and of wisdom in using its power Trades unions Strikes Arbitration The provident features of trades unions Trades unions and legislation Trades unions and bureaus of labor statistics Cooperation In Europe In the United States Trades unions and co-operation Correction of labor's faults. 2. Social conditions partly responsible for these faults (i) Conditions causing labors inefficiency Heredity Environment Defective legislation Defective education Societys duty touching education States duty touching education(2) Conditions creating labors lack of interest Changed character of industry in modern world Employers have failed to appreciate this, and to provide for the better social condition of workingmen Examples of the true relation of capital to labor in Europe and the United States Arbitration as a substitute for strikes(3) Conditions engendering thriftlessness of labor Lack of education in habits of saving Intermittent occupation Discouraging influence of poverty How poverty is aggravated by monopolies(4) The task before society. 3. Social forces favoring capital and land against labor (I) Legislation works against labor(2) Industrial development works against labor Effect of machinery Labor must control mechanism What the State may do to help this The problem of distribution(3) Land works against labor Land the basis of industry Labors relation to the soil in a simple state of society Changes in the tenure of land Monopolies of land Effects upon civilization Relations of rent to labor The problem of land nationalization First step towards the peoples proprietorship of land.4. Summary Suggestions-r-Objections to governmental action considered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.