CHAPTER 22

OTHER PROTECTIVE LABOR AND SOCIAL LEGISLATION

REFERENCES.

*_Adams_ and _Sumner_, chs. V, sec. 3, XII, sec. 5, XIII, sec. 3.

_Addams, Jane_, Child labor legislation, a requisite for industrial efficiency. A. A. A., 25: 542-550. 1905.

_Commons_, chs. XIV, XIX, XX, XXII, XXIII, XXVI, XXXVIII.

*_Commons_ and _Andrews_, Chs. VI, VII, IX.

_Fisher, W. C._, The field of workmen's compensation in the United States. A. E. Rev., 5: 221-278. 1915.

_Leiserson, W. M._, The movement for public labor exchanges. J. P. E., 23: 707-716. 1915.

_Pigou, A. C._, Unemployment. 1914.

_Rubinow, I. M._, The problem of unemployment. J. P. E., 21: 313-331. 1913.

_Rubinow, I. M._, Subsidized unemployment insurance. Ibid., 412-431. 1913.

_Sumner, H. L._, and _Merritt, E. A._, Child labor legislation in the United States. 1915.

_United States Bureau of Labor Statistics_, Bul. 159. 1915.

QUESTIONS.

1. What classes of economic goods or services are regulated by law and why?

2. Is there any likeness between trade-unions and tariffs? Between tariffs and factory legislation?

3. What reasons are given in justification of laws closing barber shops on Sundays?

4. May a person owning a lot on a residence street of a city erect a glue factory on it?

5. What have you noted as to the benefits or hardships of restricting child labor in factories?

6. In what kinds of social legislation is the federal character of our government a serious bar to experimentation? Show clearly the reasons why.

7. If population became stationary, neither increasing nor decreasing in numbers, and if methods were discovered which would render possible the production of the same amount of wealth per year as at present with only half the force of laborers employed, and if the average labor day were not shortened, would there not be a great and apparently permanent lack of employment? Discuss thoroughly and give reasons for your answer.

8. In what sense is the "unemployment," so manifest in a period of industrial depression, evidence that the number of workers is "in excess of the work to be done"?