CHAPTER XI

CONSEQUENCES

The governance of the rich 141 The direction of life and labour through expenditure 143 The cotton trade and the fate of its products 144 The demand for woollens 145 The call for boots 147 The waste of labour of nominally useful workmen 149 The parable of the temporary supper-room 149 The parable of the Ascot frock 151 Mr Rowntree's primary poverty line 153 The possible call for commodities by the poor 154 The agricultural labourer's call 155 The boot employee as a customer for the textile employee 156 The Error of Distribution connotes the misdirection and degradation of labour 156