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A most suggestive discussion of the many sides of the problem, with conclusion that the remedy lies in increased consumption which will follow a more equitable distribution. Hobson, Problems of Poverty.
See his later work above.
Mass. House Document, No. 50, 1895, Report of Board to Investigate the Subject of the Unemployed.
A most valuable investigation on the subject, giving causes of non- employment in detail.
Shaw, Relief for the Unemployed in American Cities (Review of Reviews, January 1894).
Shows the methods adopted for dealing with distress caused by lack of employment during the winter 1893-4. Warner, American Charities (New York, Crowell, 1894).
Deals principally with relief problems arising from lack of employ- ment.
Special Report on the Unemployed of your Community. This report should embody the results of a concrete study of the conditions of the unemployed and the methods of their relief. Give special attention to efforts to encourage self-help. Make a special investiga- tion of labor unions, their strength, organization, methods, rules, bene- fits, etc. Consider the value of employment bureaus, etc. General discussion : What should be Done with the Tramp ? References :
Booth, In Darkest England and the Way out (New York, Funk, 1891), pt. i, ch. 2.
An appeal for those who tramp for lack of both home and work. Flynt, How Men Become Tramps (Century, August 1895). Gives "Wanderlust," drink, county jail, etc., as causes. Henderson, Dependents, Defectives and Delinquents (Boston, Heath,
1893).
A short summary of the question, with references. McCook, The Tramp Problem (Lend a Hand, August 1895).
Ascribes as the proximate cause of tramps, fluctuations in the labor
market ; as more real causes drink, laziness, failure to marry.
McCook and Flynt have written numerous magazine articles on the
tramp. Ribton-Turner, History of Vagrants and Vagrancy (London, Chapman,
1887).
A large illustrated book, devoted largely to an historical dicussion of
the tramp in Europe with special attention to the queer habits and
institutions of tramp life; also has a valuable appendix of laws
relating to beggary.
