QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
1. What three questions are discussed in this chapter?
2. What is the extent of child labor in the United States?
3. What are some of the causes of child labor?
4. What are the chief results of child labor?
5. Discuss Federal legislation with respect to child labor.
6. Outline the minimum provisions of a good child labor law.
7. Why do women generally get lower wages than men?
8. What is meant by the minimum wage?
9. What are the chief arguments in favor of the minimum wage?
10. Give the chief arguments against it.
11. What is meant by social insurance?
12. Discuss the four forms of social insurance. Which have been applied in this country?
13. What are the three great obstacles to labor legislation in this country? Which of these appears to you to be the most important? Which appears to you to be the easiest to overcome?