5. What have you noted as to the benefits or hardships of restricting child labor in factories?
6. In what kinds of social legislation is the federal character of our government a serious bar to experimentation? Show clearly the reasons why.
7. If population became stationary, neither increasing nor decreasing in numbers, and if methods were discovered which would render possible the production of the same amount of wealth per year as at present with only half the force of laborers employed, and if the average labor day were not shortened, would there not be a great and apparently permanent lack of employment? Discuss thoroughly and give reasons for your answer.
8. In what sense is the "unemployment," so manifest in a period of industrial depression, evidence that the number of workers is "in excess of the work to be done"?
[CHAPTER 23]
SOCIAL INSURANCE
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Baldwin, F. S., Old age pension schemes: a criticism and a program. Q. J. E., 24: 713-742. 1909-1910.
Commons, ch. XXV.
*Commons and Andrews, ch. VIII.
Foerster, R. F., The British national insurance act. Q. J. E., 26: 275-312. 1911-1912.
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Questions.