Great Britain -- Social conditions
A workman’s working life begins at a very early age. In some places boys start work at thirteen or fourteen years of age, or even earlier, and set out to face the world and all its hardships and dangers with very little training, except such as may be given them by mother and...
A workman’s working life begins at a very early age. In some places boys start work at thirteen or fourteen years of age, or even earlier, and set out to face the world and all...
2. CHAPTER IIGoing through the London streets during the last two years all of us have seen motor-cars driven by ladies and loaded with wounded soldiers. It is a great sight, which brings ho...
3. CHAPTER IIIIn writing as I have done concerning the lives of the common people, I do not wish to be understood as thinking that the life of the average business man is a very desirable one...
4. CHAPTER IVReligion plays but a small and insignificant part in the life of any commercial nation. I have travelled all round the world, have seen life under the Southern Cross in Australi...
5. CHAPTER VWhat then must we all do in order that we may take our part in abolishing the evil conditions of life which surround us, and establishing a saner and more honest state of societ...