American Pauperism and the Abolition of PovertyC. H. Kerr, 1904 - 230 страници |
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abolition According aggregate almshouses amount annual average Baltimore Board of Charities boys capitalistic causes of poverty census cent Chicago chil child labor civilization clothing coal commodities crease dollars dren earnings employed entire expenditures exploited factory families feudal figures girls homes human race illiterate income increase industries institutions interest labor power less living male Mammon manufacturing Massachusetts material environment means of production ment middle class mills modern nation night nomic number of children number of employees outdoor relief parasitic classes paupers Pennsylvania percentage Philadelphia philistines plutocracy political poor population proletariat public charity received rent ruling September 30 slavery slum districts social economic social parasite Socialist society statistics street tariat tenement thousand tion toiling masses total number United value of product wage slave wages wealth week women workers York City
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Страница 101 - For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places: Turns the sky in the high window blank and reeling, Turns the long light that drops adown the...
Страница 165 - MEN of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear...
Страница 10 - Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour ; Her mirror is turned forward to reflect The promise of the future, not the past...
Страница 102 - Let' them touch each other's hands, in a fresh wreathing Of their tender human youth! Let them feel that this cold metallic motion Is not all the life God fashions or reveals: Let them prove their living souls against the notion That they live in you, or under you, O wheels!
Страница 166 - The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears ; The arms ye forge, another bears.
Страница 187 - Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man's ideas, views, and conceptions, in one word, man's consciousness changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social lif e ? What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed ? The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Страница 69 - Is it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the Time, City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime? There among the glooming alleys Progress halts on palsied feet, Crime and hunger cast our maidens by the thousand on the street...
Страница 101 - The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west — But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Страница 196 - In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Страница 196 - All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities. The proletarian movement is the selfconscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority.