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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV A SUMMARY OF INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE LIQUOR PROBLEM By HENEY W. FARNAM SECBETABT OF THE SUK-COMSUTTKE A SUMMARY OF INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE LIQUOR PROBLEM I. SCOPE AND OBJECT OF THE INVESTIGATION It should be clearly understood at the outset that this chapter does not attempt to deal with all of the phases of the liquor problem which may have an economic bearing. The important subjects treated in the 12th Annual Report of the Federal Department of Labor, and relating principally to the production and consumption of liquor and the amount contributed by the traffic towards taxation, were, from the beginning, excluded from our investigation, because they were already provided for. Nor did we attempt to duplicate any of the work done by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor and published in its 26th Annual Report. Of the questions that remain, our investigation considers: ? 1. The relations of the liquor problem to poverty and destitution as evidenced in thework of charity organization societies, alms- houses, and societies for the care of poor children; 2. Its relations to crime as shown in some of the leading reformatories and State prisons of the country; 3. Its relations to the Negroes and to the North American Indians; 4. The economics of the saloon as the chief distributing agency of liquor in large cities. By limiting our field we have made it possible, as we believe, to cover it more thoroughly than has been done hitherto. Several valuable investigations, it is true, have already been undertaken into these subjects in the United States. The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor has, we believe, the honor of having been the pioneer in this field, and in its 12th Annual...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217556385 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217556388 |
| Weight | 0.23 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.15 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 62 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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