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13. Women in industry. (Select some phase of this problem for report. Consult Butler, Women and the Trades; MacLean, Women Workers and Society; Kelley, Some Ethical Gains through Legislation; Annals, vol. lxv; Abbot, Women in Industry,_ and similar works.)

14. Relation of home conditions to industrial efficiency. (Annals, vol. lxv, pages 277-288.)

15. Industrial efficiency of women compared with that of men. (Lee, The Human Machine and Industrial Efficiency, chapter x.)

16. Housing the unskilled worker. (Wood, The Housing of the Unskilled Wage-earner.)

17. Work of the National Housing Association. (Write to the association office in Washington, D. C., for descriptive literature.)

18. Summary of Irving Fisher's report on national vitality. (Bulletin of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health, etc., prepared for the National Conservation Commission, by Irving Fisher, Washington, 1909.)

19. Preventable diseases. (Hutchinson, Preventable Diseases.)

20. Occupational diseases. (Oliver, Diseases of Occupation.)

21. How to act in case of an accident. (Gulick, Emergencies; Tolman, Hygiene for the Worker, chapter xvi.)

22. The right to leisure time. (Kelley, Some Ethical Gains through Legislation, chapters in and iv.)

23. Legal status of workmen's compensation. (Annals, vol. xxxviii, No. i, pages 117-168.)

24. Health insurance. (Rubinow, Standards of Health Insurance, chapters iii and iv.)

25. The police power. (Guitteau, Government and Politics in the United States, chapter xii.)

FOR CLASSROOM DISCUSSION

26. The minimum wage for men.

27. Should old age and sickness insurance be made a feature of the social insurance program of your state?

28. Should pensions be paid out of public funds to mothers having dependent children?

29. Should labor legislation be enacted primarily by the Federal or by the state governments?

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