A PROGRAMME FOR SOCIAL STUDY. II.
FIFTH MEETING.
General topic : The Housing of the Poor. References :
Drage, The Labor Problem (London, Macmillan, 1 896).
A careful discussion.
Gould, The Economics of Improved Housing (Yale Review t May 1896). Maintains that improved housing is fairly remunerative as a busi- ness enterprise and highly economical to society as a preventive of crime and pauperism, giving statistics as proof.
Shaw, Municipal Government in Continental Europe (New York, Cen- tury Co., 1895).
Shaw, Municipal Government in Great Britain (New York, Century Co., 1895).
Shaw's two books are standard works on this subject. (See indexes.) Tolman, Half a Century of Improved Housing Effort by the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Gives the experience of this the oldest and most active of such associations, and the results attained.
United States Commissioner of Labor, The Housing of the Working Classes (8th special report). Invaluable for a thorough study of the subject. Special Report on Local Tenement Houses.
Ascertain the names and location of these houses and the number of the inhabitants. Make a special study of two or three typical houses and show plan of the same, number and size of rooms, arrangements for ventilation and light, etc., and consider the opportunities of the inmates for healthful physical, social, and family life. General discussion, topic : The Tenement House Problem. References :
Arena, The Tenement House Curse, a Symposium (Arena, April 1894). Discusses the menace of the tenement house and gives facts as to Chicago, Boston, and New York; also has appended a bibliography of the subject.
Mass. Bureau of Labor Statistics, A Tenement House Census of Boston (Report of the Bureau for 1892).
A model of thoroughness, with suggestions as to remedies.
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