NEW YORK
THE DEVIN-ADAIR COMPANY
1912
Copyright, 1912, by
The Devin-Adair Company
J. Elliot Ross is a member of an old and prominentSouthern family. He has long been an ardent studentof economics, of sociology, and of the enslaved condition ofthe Wage-Earner,—and who, save the idle rich and the socialdrone, is not a wage-earner? Dr. Ross is a graduate ofGeorge Washington University. The Catholic Universityof America conferred upon him the degree of Doctor ofPhilosophy for this, his excellent work in behalf of theConsumer, the Wage-Earner, and the Oppressed.
| CHAPTER I | |
| The Point at Issue | 3 |
CHAPTER II | |
| Obligations of the Consuming Class | 8 |
CHAPTER III | |
| What is a Just Employer? | 38 |
CHAPTER IV | |
| Theory of Industrial Organization | 47 |
CHAPTER V | |
| Industrial Conditions: Wages | 66 |
CHAPTER VI | |
| Industrial Conditions: Health | 77 |
CHAPTER VII | |
| Industrial Conditions: Morals | 95 |
CHAPTER VIII | |
| What Should the Individual Consumer Do? | 107 |
Appendix | 133 |
Bibliography | 135 |
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