Boy life & labour : the manufacture of inefficiency / by Arnold Freeman.

  • Arnold Freeman
Date:
1914
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Credit: Boy life & labour : the manufacture of inefficiency / by Arnold Freeman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BOY LIFE AND LABOUR. « CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. The problem of Boy Labour has received considerable attention during the last few years as a phase of the problem of Unemployment. This mode of regarding it has been due to its introduction to public attention through the Reports of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress, which made Unemploy- ment a chief object of investigation. Both the Majority and Minority Reports of the Com- mission regard Boy Labour, almost exclusively, as a source of Unemployment;1 subsequent publications, neglecting the qualifications introduced into the Reports 1 Majority Report of the Royal Commissions on the Poor Laws, Part VI. Chap. I. p. 141 :—“ The great prominence given to Boy Labour, not only in our evidence, but in the various reports of our Special Investigators, leads us to the opinion that this is, perhaps, the most serious of the phenomena which we have encountered in our study of Unemployment.” Minority Report, Ibid., Part II. Chap. IV. E. iii.:—“ We regard this per- petual recruitment of the Unemployable by tens of thousands of boys who, through neglect to provide them with suitable industrial training, may almost be said to graduate into Unem- ployment as a matter of course, as perhaps the gravest of all the grave facts which this Commission has laid bare. We cannot believe that the nation can long persist in ignoring the fact that the Unemployed, and particularly the Underemployed and the Unemployable, are thus being daily created under our eyes.”
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