“Mr. Moore has taken a generous view of what his subject includes, and his book is not only interesting to read but it will facilitate the work of those high legal personages whose dignified labours lie on this borderland of international and municipal law.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 812. D. 29, ’06. 280w. |
More, Mrs. Louise Bolard. Wage-earners’ budgets: a study of standards and cost of living in New York city; with a preface by Franklin H. Geddings. (Greenwich house series of social studies, no. 1.) **$2.50. Holt.
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A study of the social, economic and industrial life of the wage-earners of a city neighborhood, based upon an inquiry into the economic status of two hundred families whose struggle for existence is most intense. The investigator’s final list was made up of families who proved able and willing to coöperate with her intelligently and patiently in keeping simple accounts, and in making careful, verifiable statements. The statistics are presented in tabulated form and throw light upon incomes, expenditures and standards of living.
“As a contribution to our concrete knowledge of social conditions the present work bears the only test to which it need be subjected—it is accurate, specific, and detailed.” John Cummings.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 560. N. ’07. 560w. |
“The value of the book consists, then, in its detailed study of how a certain class of working people live.” Charles S. Bernheimer.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 642. O. 19, ’07. 1050w. |