The Slippery Slope

by William Amias Bailward

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WILLIAM AMIAS BAILWARD.

[Frontispiece.

THE

SLIPPERY SLOPE

AND OTHER PAPERS

ON SOCIAL SUBJECTS

BY THE LATE

WILLIAM AMIAS BAILWARD, M.A.

"I am not at all disturbed at the prospect
of the slippery slope."
—The Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith.
Hansard.

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W
1920

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CONTENTS

	page
Introduction	v
Biographical Note	ix
Preface	xi
Social Study on Large Maps	1
Some Early History of Poor Relief in England	18
Some Early History of Poor Relief in Paris	38
Poor Relief in a West Country Village, 1786-1906	49
Notes from a Workhouse Examination Committee	55
Poor Law and Charity	71
Social Reform and the New Socialism	100
Democracy and Local Elections	117
The Reports of the Commissions of 1834 and 1909	132
The Minority Report: A Criticism (which has received no answer)	138
"The Slippery Slope"	172
The Psychology of Pauperism	184
Appendices:—
The Relation of Legal Relief to Private Charity	193
Some Recent Developments of Poor Relief	210