CONTENTS
George Haw
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Introduction
xiii
CHAPTER I.
Earliest Years in a One-Roomed Home
1
CHAPTER II.
As a Child in the Workhouse
8
CHAPTER III.
Schools and Schoolmasters
16
CHAPTER IV.
Round the Haunts of his Boyhood
25
CHAPTER V.
In Training for a Craftsman
33
CHAPTER VI.
Tramping the Country for Work
43
CHAPTER VII.
One of London's Unemployed
50
CHAPTER VIII.
The College at the Dock Gates
57
CHAPTER IX.
From the Cheering Multitude to a Sorrow-laden Home
67
CHAPTER X.
A Labour Member's Wages
75
CHAPTER XI.
On the London County Council
85
CHAPTER XII.
Two of his Monuments
96
CHAPTER XIII.
The Task of his Life Begins
105
CHAPTER XIV.
The Man who Fed the Poor
112
CHAPTER XV.
Turning Workhouse Children into Useful Citizens
119
CHAPTER XVI.
On the Metropolitan Asylums Board
128
CHAPTER XVII.
A Bad Boys' Advocate
134
CHAPTER XVIII.
Proud of the Poor
144
CHAPTER XIX.
The First Working-Man Mayor in London
154
CHAPTER XX.
The King's Dinner—and Others
166
CHAPTER XXI.
The Man who Paid Old-age Pensions
175
CHAPTER XXII.
Election to Parliament
186
CHAPTER XXIII.
Advent of the Political Labour Party
195
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Living Wage for Men and Women
202
CHAPTER XXV.
Free Trade in the Name of the Poor
210
CHAPTER XXVI.
Preparing for the Unemployed Act
219
CHAPTER XXVII.
Agitation in the House of Commons
227
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Queen Intervenes
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