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... LEISURE The Unsought Leisure of Prosperous Women Enforced Idleness is not Leisure Increased Speed Calls for Leisure Methods of Establishing the Right to Leisure CHAPTER IV 66 88518 . 91 99 • 105 • 112 116 120 • • 125 JUDICIAL ...
... LEISURE The Unsought Leisure of Prosperous Women Enforced Idleness is not Leisure Increased Speed Calls for Leisure Methods of Establishing the Right to Leisure CHAPTER IV 66 88518 . 91 99 • 105 • 112 116 120 • • 125 JUDICIAL ...
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... leisure and school . A second cause of child - labor is the greed of em- ployers for cheap labor , enhanced by every improve- ment in machinery of the kind that makes the work of children available ; and enhanced , also , by the very ...
... leisure and school . A second cause of child - labor is the greed of em- ployers for cheap labor , enhanced by every improve- ment in machinery of the kind that makes the work of children available ; and enhanced , also , by the very ...
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... creation of such a Commission will mark one more important recognition of the right to childhood and will register one more ethical gain . CHAPTER III THE RIGHT TO LEISURE The effort to establish 104 SOME ETHICAL GAINS.
... creation of such a Commission will mark one more important recognition of the right to childhood and will register one more ethical gain . CHAPTER III THE RIGHT TO LEISURE The effort to establish 104 SOME ETHICAL GAINS.
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... leisure was known as the ten hours movement , and later as the eight hours movement . America having produced no great philanthropic leader devoted to securing leisure for the young and defenseless workers , no Lord Shaftesbury , the ...
... leisure was known as the ten hours movement , and later as the eight hours movement . America having produced no great philanthropic leader devoted to securing leisure for the young and defenseless workers , no Lord Shaftesbury , the ...
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... leisure is one of the reasons for being of the Consumers ' League . However different the meth- ods of these diverse organizations , their goal is the same , —the establishment of reasonable daily leisure in the lives of working people ...
... leisure is one of the reasons for being of the Consumers ' League . However different the meth- ods of these diverse organizations , their goal is the same , —the establishment of reasonable daily leisure in the lives of working people ...
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Page 330 - If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. Sec. 8. That the term
Page 304 - The former naturally desire to obtain as much labor as possible from their employees, while the latter are often induced by the fear of discharge to conform to regulations which their judgment, fairly exercised, would pronounce to be detrimental to their health or strength. In other words, the proprietors lay down the rules and the laborers are practically constrained to obey them. In such cases self-interest is often an unsafe guide, and the legislature may properly interpose its authority.
Page 263 - And these may be reduced to three principal or primary articles ; the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty and the right of private property...
Page 320 - The powers of the legislature are defined and limited, and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained...
Page 327 - Provided, That no article shall be deemed misbranded or adulterated within the provisions of this Act when intended for export to any foreign country and prepared or packed according to the specifications or directions of the foreign purchaser...
Page 264 - THE third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of property : which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all his acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land.
Page 334 - ... shall be liable to be proceeded against in any district court of the United States within the district where the same is found, and seized for confiscation by a process of libel for condemnation.
Page 330 - Second. If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article. Third. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted.
Page 292 - Due process of law, in spite of the absolutism of continental governments, is not alien to that code which survived the Roman Empire as the foundation of modern civilization in Europe, and which has given us that fundamental maxim 'of distributive justice — suum cuique tribuere.
Page 276 - ... to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes and ordinances...