href="#litres_trial_promo">Proposed extension of the industrial functions of municipalities
Fallacies that underlie such utopias
Socialism incompatible with free trade and international commerce
Socialism in England has not chiefly emanated from the working class
The Social and Democratic League
Tendencies that favoured Socialism
Socialist successes—Trade-union congresses
‘Nationalisation’ doctrines sanctioned by the Congress of Norwich, 1894
Exaggerations of the power of the New Unionism
Some doctrines of English Socialists
Connection of English Socialism with the agrarian movement in Ireland
Proposed absorption of railways, &c., by the State
Absorption of rent and interest by means of taxation
Effects of such a measure on national prosperity
Effects of taxation on the poor
Danger of exaggerated municipal employment
Some measures of the London County Council
What industries Government can manage
Effect of the free propagation of revolutionary opinions
Moral and religious aspects of English Socialism
The Factory Laws
For the protection of children
Laws for protecting adults against their own imprudence
Limiting the hours of labour of adults
The longest hours and least paid labour not the most productive
The eight hours day—Objections to it
Conflicts in poor men’s interests
Doctrine that inefficient labour increases employment
Trade-union policy tends to multiply the unemployed
International agreements about hours of labour—Foreign hours
Workmen usually prefer higher wages to shorter hours
Useful functions of trade unions
They have not, however, been the chief cause of the rise of wages
Supply and demand and ‘the living wage’
Repeal of the combination laws
Trade unions as corporations in most respects unrecognised by law
