Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree.

  • Seebohm Rowntree
Date:
1902
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Credit: Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No doubt the formality and mystery appeal to the imagination of the members, and help to make Friendly Societies the absorbing interest which they are to hundreds of working men in York. In conclusion, reference should be made to the advantageous discipline which the Friendly Societies bring to many of their members. A man who has passed through the various “ offices” of a Friendly Society, who as chairman has been responsible for the orderly conduct of business at the lodge meetings, and as secretary or treasurer has become responsible for the organisation of the work of the lodge, or the management of considerable sums of money, will have received lessons of high value in the equipment of a useful citizen. (6) Life Insurance Some idea of the extent to which the practice of Life Insurance prevails among the industrial classes in York may be gathered from the fact that, in addition to ten agents who give only part of their time to the work, there are not less than seventy-five agents who give the whole of their time to the collection of weekly life insurance premiums from the wage-earning classes in the city. Forty of these agents are employed by the Prudential Insurance Company, the others by nine smaller Companies. It has not been possible to ascertain exactly what total sum is collected weekly, but judging from information received regarding the weekly takings of