CHAPTER XI. Possible Remedies—General Principles

POSSIBLE REMEDIES—GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Remedies must take into account past and present conditions 194 Industrial tendencies 194 Concentration of capital and labor 194 Specialization of labor 195 Associations for mutual benefit 195 Specialization of education 195 Profit sharing 196 Industrial independence of women 196 Helping persons to help themselves 196 Publicity in business affairs 197 The question at issue 198 Impossibility of finding a panacea 199 General measures 199 Truer theoretical conception of place of household employments 199 A more just estimate of their practical importance 200 Removal of prejudice against housework 201 Correction of misconceptions in regard to remuneration for women’s work 201 Summary of general principles 203