Problems in American Democracy
Chapter 42
13. Women in industry. (Select some phase of this problem for report. Consult Butler, _Women and the Trades;_ MacLean, _Women _Workers and Society_; Kelley, _Some Ethical Gains through Legislation; Annals,_ vol. lxv; Abbot, _Women in Industry,_ and similar works.)
14. Relation of home conditions to industrial efficiency. (_Annals,_ vol. lxv, pages 277-288.)
15. Industrial efficiency of women compared with that of men. (Lee, _The Human Machine and Industrial Efficiency,_ chapter x.)
16. Housing the unskilled worker. (Wood, The _Housing of the Unskilled Wage-earner._)
17. Work of the National Housing Association. (Write to the association office in Washington, D. C., for descriptive literature.)
18. Summary of Irving Fisher's report on national vitality. (_Bulletin of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health,_ etc., prepared for the National Conservation Commission, by Irving Fisher, Washington, 1909.)
19. Preventable diseases. (Hutchinson, _Preventable Diseases._)
20. Occupational diseases. (Oliver, _Diseases of Occupation._)
21. How to act in case of an accident. (Gulick, _Emergencies; Tolman, Hygiene for the Worker,_ chapter xvi.)
22. The right to leisure time. (Kelley, _Some Ethical Gains through Legislation,_ chapters in and iv.)
23. Legal status of workmen's compensation. (_Annals_, vol. xxxviii, No. i, pages 117-168.)
24. Health insurance. (Rubinow, _Standards of Health Insurance_, chapters iii and iv.)
25. The police power. (Guitteau, _Government and Politics in the United States_, chapter xii.)
FOR CLASSROOM DISCUSSION
26. The minimum wage for men.
27. Should old age and sickness insurance be made a feature of the social insurance program of your state?
28. Should pensions be paid out of public funds to mothers having dependent children?
29. Should labor legislation be enacted primarily by the Federal or by the state governments?