The slippery slope, and other papers on social subjects

Introduction.--Biographical note.--Preface.--Social study on large maps.--Some early history of poor relief in England.--Some early history of poor relief in Paris.--Poor relief in a west country village, 1786-1906.--Notes from a workhouse examination committee.--Poor law and charity.--Social reform and the new socialism.--Democracy and local elections.--The reports of the commissions of 1834 and 1909.--The minority report; a criticism (which has received no answer)--"The slippery slope."--The psychology of pauperism.--Appendices: The relation of legal relief to private charity. Some recent developments of poor relief.