Methods of social reform
Subtitle: and other papers
By: by W. Stanley Jevons.
Publisher: Macmillan and co.
Published: 1883
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Social problems; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Economic policy
Notes: A collection of essays published under the above title in the Contemporary review, and of other papers and addresses on kindred subjects. cf. Pref.
Table of contents: title: Amusements of the people.- The rationale of free public libraries.- The use and abuse of museums.- "Cram."- Trade societies: their objects and policy.- On industrial partnerships.- Married women in factories.- Manchester statistical society; inaugural address.- British association, opening address as president of Section F.- Cruelty to animals; a study in sociology.- On the United Kingdom alliance and its prospects of success.- Experimental legislation and the drink traffic.- On the analogy between the post office, telegraphs, and other systems of conveyance of the United Kingdom, as regards government control.- The post office and blank cheques.- A state parcel post.- The railways and the state.