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Includes bibliographical references and index. ; pt. 1. Wage standards: The minimum wage as part of a program for social reform by H.R. Seager. Massachusetts and the minimum wage by H.L. Brown. The minimum wage in Great Britain and Australia by M.B. Hammond. The proposed Pennsylvania minimum wage act by W.D. Lewis. Wages in the United States by S. Nearing. The minimum wage as a legislative proposal in the United States by S. McC. Lindsay. Social investigation and social legislation by A.L. Elkus. Immigraion and the minimum wage by P.U. Kellogg. -- pt. 2. Family standards: The standardization of family life by S.N. Patten. The waste of private housekeeping by Mrs. Charlotte P. Gilman. Scientific management in home-making by Mrs. F.A. Pattison. The cost of living for a wage-earner's family in New York city by Mrs. Louise B. More. Some unconsidered elements in household expenditure by Margaret F. Byington. Utilization of the family income by Martha B. Bruere. Work of the Housewives league by Mrs. J. Heath. The cost of living and household management by Ida M. Tarbell. -- pt. 3. Public service and control: The monetary side of the cost of living problem by I. Fisher. Municipal markets in their relation to the cost of living by C.C. Miller. Communal benefits from the public control of terminal markets by Mrs. E. Black. Relation of cold storage to the food supply and the consumers by M.E. Pennington. The cost of private monopoly to public and wage-earner by A.R.E. Pinchot. Burdens of false capitalization by S.H. Barker. -- pt. 4. Concrete measures for reducing cost of living: Can the cost of distributing food products be reduced? by C, L. King. Cooperation as a means of reducing the cost of living by A. Shaw. Advertising and the high cost of living by H.W. Hess. The increased cost of production by E.P. Wheeler. The farmer's share in the high cost of living by Mrs. Edith E. Smith. The housekeeper and the cost of living by Martha Van Renssellaer. -- Book department. -- Report of annual meeting committee. -- Index. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Book department": p. 320-346. ; -- The function of produce exchanges, by S. S. Huebner.--Methods of marketing the grain crop, by S. Harris.--Classification of grain into grades, by J. C. F. Merrill.--Grain inspection in Illinois, by W. S. Cowen.--The crop reporting system, by N. C. Murray.--Current sources of information in produce markets, by B. D. Mudgett.-- Governmental regulation of speculation, by C. Parker.--Factors affecting commodity prices, by R. W. Babson.--Board of trade of the city of Chicago, by G. F. Stone.--The New York produce exchange, by E. R. Carhart.--Merchants' exchange of St. Louis, by G. H. Morgan.--The exchanges of Minneapolis, Duluth, Kansas City, Mo., Omaha, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Toledo.--Cotton exchanges and their economic functions, by A. R. Marsh.--Financing of cotton, by J. J. Arnold.--The coffee market, by G. G. Huebner.--Communication: Shipping facilities between the United States and South America, by W. E. Humphrey. ; Mode of access: Internet.

pt. 4. Our mineral resources [by] G.O. Smith. The production and waste of mineral resources and their bearing on conservation [by] J.A. Holmes. Preservation of the phosphates and the conservation of the soil [by] C.R. Van Hise. ; pt. 1. Forestry on private lands [by] G. Pinchot. Public regulation of private forests [by] H.S. Graves. Can the states regulate private forests? [by] F.C. Zacharie.--pt. 2. Water as a resource [by] W.J. McGee. Water power in the United States [by] M.O. Leighton. The scope of state and federal legislation concerning the use of waters [by] C.E. Wright. The necessity for state or federal regulation of water power development [by] C.W. Baker. Federal control of water power in Switzerland [by] T. Cleveland.--pt. 3. Classification of the public lands [by] G.W. Woodruff. A summary of our most important land laws [by] K. Nelson. Indian lands: their administration with reference to present and future use [by] F.E. Leupp. The conservation and preservation of soil fertility [by] C.G. Hopkins. Farm tenure in the United States [by] H. Gannett. What may be accomplished by reclamation [by] F.H. Newell. The legal problems of reclamation of lands by means in irrigation [by] M. Bien. ; Mode of access: Internet.