The Online Library of Liberty

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• Introduction
• Prefatory Letter to Mr. Fisher Unwin
• Preface the Laws of Nature
• I. The Motive of Human Activity.
• II. The Natural Law of the Economy of Power, Or the Law of Least Expenditure.
• III. The Natural Law of Competition For a Subsistence.
• IV. The Natural Law of Value.
• Part I the State of War
• Chapter I Formation of Primitive Communities and the Conditions Necessary to Their Existence
• Part I: Chapter Ii Competition Between Primitive Communities and Its Results
• Part I: Chapter Iii Competition Between States In Process of Civilisation
• Part I: Chapter Iv Decline of Destructive Competition
• Part I: Chapter V Why the State of War Continues When It No Longer Fulfils a Purpose
• Part I: Chapter Vi Consequences of the Perpetuation of the State of War
• Part Ii the State of Peace
• Chapter I the Collective Guarantee of the Security of Nations
• Part II: Chapter Ii the Free Constitution of Nationality
• Part II: Chapter Iii Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions
• Part II: Chapter Iv Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions (continued)
• Part II: Chapter V Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions (continued)
• Part II: Chapter Vi Subjection and Sovereignty of the Individual
• Part II: Chapter Vii Impost and Contribution
• Part II: Chapter Viii Production of Articles of Naturally Individual Consumption
• Part II: Chapter Ix Equilibrium of Production and Consumption
• Part II: Chapter X Distribution of Products and the Share of Capital In the Proceeds of Production
• Part II: Chapter Xi Distribution of Products and the Share of Labour In the Proceeds of Production
• Part II: Chapter Xii the Problem of Population
• Part II: Chapter Xiii Consumption
• Part II: Chapter Xiv the Expansion of Civilisation
• Part II: Chapter Xv Summary and Conclusion
• Part Iii
• Note a the Czar and Disarmament
• Part III: Note B Syndicates Restricting Competition, Or "trusts"
• Part III: Note C Effects of Industrial Progress On the Sphere of Production
• Part III: Note D Costs and Profits of State Colonisation
• Part III: Note E the Economic and Socialist Conceptions of the Society of the Future
• By Edward Atkinson, Ll.d., Ph.d. I

Part III

Note C
Effects of Industrial Progress on the Sphere of Production

In a paper in the Forum of April, 1898, Mr. W. T. Harris asks, "Is there really work for all?" To solve this problem he proceeds to quote statistics, showing the changes which have occurred in the different classes of occupation during a twenty years' period in the United States.