prevention of destitution
By: by Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
Contributors: Webb, Beatrice Potter, 1858-1943.
Publisher: Longmans, Green
Published: 1916
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Poor -- Great Britain; Charities -- Great Britain; Poor laws -- Great Britain; Unemployed -- Great Britain
Notes: "The subject of this book is destitution as it exists in the United Kingdom to-day."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Destitution as a disease of society.; title: How to prevent the destitution that arises from sickness.; title: Destitution and eugenics.; title: How to prevent the destitution arising from child neglect.; title: Sweating and unemployment as causes of destitution.; title: How to prevent unemployment and under-employment.; title: Insurance.; title: The enlarged sphere of voluntary agencies in the prevention of destitution.; title: The need for a common register and a registrar of public assistance.; title: The "moral factor."