Transcriber's Notes

The following changes have been made to the text as printed:

  1. Footnotes have been placed close to their respective markers and renumbered sequentially within each chapter.
  2. Page [5]: When, however we come to the third constituent ... A comma has been inserted after however. [There is extra space in the line as printed, where a comma would be expected.]
  3. Page [32] (footnote): Fom changed to From.
  4. Page [50]: Changed ’ to ” after respect. [Quote opens with “]
  5. Page [54]: Changed some unmeaning task, work die unfreed, to ... taskwork, die unfreed. [The reference is to the poem A Summer Night by Matthew Arnold: Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, ...]
  6. Page [95] (bottom line): Henrietta A. Barnett changed to Henrietta O. Barnett.
  7. Page [137]: labouror changed to labourer. [The spelling has been checked in a facsimile (not e-text) of the 1834 document being quoted]
  8. Page [141]: satifies changed to satisfies.
  9. Page [156]: The corresponding mortality ... it between two and three times changed to is between ...
  10. Page [205]: Removed quote mark before Mr. Williams said:
  11. Page [212]: motthering changed to mothering.
  12. Page [230]: Footnote index [1] inserted in front of From “The Contemporary Review”.
  13. Page [249]: between £160 and £200 per annum changed to between £160 and £700. [Figures verified from the work cited: Riches and Poverty, by E. Chiozza Money (1905), p. 42.]
  14. Page [271]: Inserted comma after Why in Why what would the men have to lean against?
  15. Page [328]: 5·300 changed to 5,300.
  16. Page [332] (bottom line): Samuel H. Barnett changed to Samuel A. Barnett.

The following anomalies in the printed text are noted, but no change has been made:

  1. Inconsistent hyphenations, spellings and punctuation have been retained as printed, where not definitely erroneous. [These are discrete essays, written at different times by two hands and reprinted from a range of publications.]
  2. In the children’s writings quoted in [Chapter 4], all non-standard spelling, punctuation and grammar have been retained as printed.
  3. [Table of contents:] Chapter 33 begins on page 327, not 320 as printed. Chapter 34 begins on page 333, not 327. The entries have not been changed, but in this electronic version the page numbers are correctly linked to the head of the chapters.