Chapter 20. Labor and Classes of Laborers
1. Is dancing labor? Is the dancing of a dancing-master labor? If he would rather dance than eat, is it labor?
2. Enumerate some kinds of labor necessary to produce bread.
3. "Washing of clothes is unproductive labor; therefore as little of it should be done as possible." Criticize the argument.
4. Would you say that differences in ability at manual trades are due to practice or to native talent? If to both, in what proportion?
5. Do sons usually follow the father's trade? Is it more or less common than formerly for them to do so?
6. Do you know from personal observation whether a Mexican, a German, or an American, is the best workman?
7. What important personal traits are needed to make a man an efficient market-gardener?
8. Which would be of the greatest economic advantage, to increase by 50% the intelligence, the physical strength, or the integrity of the workers of this country?