Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX A. Report by the Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law in Scotland.
- Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX A. Report by the Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law in Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![TABLE OF CO^TEmS—continued. PAGE Career and other stimulus to intelligence in—continued. Kubber works 48 [62] Biscuit manufacture - -----48 [62] Distillery , 48 [62] Brewery - - - - 48 [62] British wines, syrups, etc., manufacture and export 4B [62] Bonded warehouse . - - - 48 [62] Engineering 48 [62] Printing, etc. 49 [63] Attendance at continuation schools and technical classes - - - - - 49 [63] Paternal system of training adolescents 49 [63] B and C—Temporary engagements - - - 50 [64] Paternal firms in unorganised trades 50 [64] Printing and engineering - - - - 51 [65] Tendency of Trade Unionism 51 [65] D—Menial or low-grade work 53 [67] E—Monotony arising from sub-division of processes 54 [68] F—Arrangements which encourage m^en to give in to their weaknesses - - - 55 [69] Dock labour in Loith 55 [69] Employers of dock labour 56 [70] Methods of engagement 56 [70] Effects of conditions of employment - 57 [71] Dock labour in Greenock 58 [72] „ Dundee 58 [72] Free Labour Registry - 59 [73] Caledonian Railway Company and casual labour 59 [73] Temporary engagements by Corporation Departments 59 [73] Edinburgh 59 [73] Glasgow 60 [74] Suggested remedy and objections to it - 62 [76] Results of study of individual cases of unemployed :— Glasgow 63 [77] Leith 63 [77] Dundee 64 [78] • (b) —Does it forestall normal employment and so tend to throw the better workmen out of work? 64 [78] (c) —Does it affect the regularity of industry, e.g., encourage employers to discharge men in slack times ? 64 [78] (d) —To what extent do the unemployed who receive assistance from non-Poor Law sources subsequently become paupers ? 64 [78] 2. —To what extent is the work provided for the unemployed of public benefit, apart from any possible good result on the persons employed ? - - - - - - - - 66 [80] 3. —What is the extent of the difference between the actual cost of work provided for the imemployed and the cost of the same work supposing it to have been done in the open market under ordinary conditions ? 68 [82] 4. —Is there any reason for supposing that the work done by the unemployed is inferior in durability, etc., to similar work done in the open market ?- - - - - -71 [85]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2439998x_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
