| CHAP. | ||
| I. | The Verdict of the Economists. | |
| II. | The Higgling of the Market. | |
| III. | The Economic Characteristics Of Trade Unionism. | |
| (a) The Device of Restriction of Numbers. | ||
| (b) The Device of the Common Rule. | ||
| (c) The Effect of the Sectional Application of the Common Rule | ||
| on the Distribution of Industry. | ||
| (d) Parasitic Trades. | ||
| (e) The National Minimum. | ||
| (f) The Unemployable. | ||
| (g) Summary of the Economic Characteristics of the Device Of | ||
| The Common Rule. | ||
| (h) Trade Union Methods. | ||
| IV. | Trade Unionism and Democracy. |
APPENDICES
The Legal Position of Collective Bargaining in England—The Bearing of Industrial Parasitism and the Policy of a National Minimum on the Free Trade Controversy—Some Statistics bearing on the Relative Movements of the Marriage and Birth-Rates, Pauperism, Wages, and the Price of Wheat—A Supplement to the Bibliography of Trade Unionism.
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