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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Problems of Poverty, by John A. Hobson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Problems of Poverty Author: John A. Hobson Release Date: January 13, 2004 [eBook #10710] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROBLEMS OF POVERTY*** E-text prepared by Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders Transcriber's note: Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the text. Problems of Poverty An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of The Poor By John A. Hobson, M.A. Author of "The Problem of The Unemployed," "International Trade," Etc. Sixth Edition First Published April 1891 Second Edition November 1894 Third Edition July 1896 Fourth Edition July 1899 Fifth Edition May 1905 Sixth Edition 1906 Preface The object of this volume is to collect, arrange, and examine some of the leading facts and forces in modern industrial life which have a direct bearing upon Poverty, and to set in the light they afford some of the suggested palliatives and remedies. Although much remains to be done in order to establish on a scientific basis the study of "the condition of the people," it is possible that the brief setting forth of carefully ascertained facts and figures in this little book may be of some service in furnishing a stimulus to the fuller systematic study of the important social questions with which it deals. The treatment is designed to be adapted to the focus of the citizen- student who brings to his task not merely the intellectual interest of the collector of knowledge, but the moral interest which belongs to one who is a part of all he sees, and a sharer in the social responsibility for the present and the future of industrial society. For the statements of fact contained in these chapters I am largely indebted to the valuable studies presented in the first volume of Mr. Charles Booth's _Labour and Life of the People_, a work which, when completed, will place the study of problems of poverty upon a solid scientific basis which has hitherto been wanting. A large portion of this boo
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