Social Problems

Then shall they also answer him, saying, "Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?"

Then shall he answer them, saying, "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me."

--Matthew

Preface to the Current Edition / 1981

Note to the Original Edition / 1883

1. The Increasing Importance of Social Questions
   

2. Political Dangers
   

3. Coming Increase of Social Pressure
   

4. Two Opposing Tendencies
   

5. The March of Concentration
   

6. The Wrong in Existing Social Conditions
   

7. . Is It the Best of All Possible Worlds?
   

8. That We All Might Be Rich
   

9. First Principles
   

10. The Rights of Man
    

11. Dumping Garbage
    

12. Over-Production
    

13. Unemployed labor
    

14. The Effects of Machinery
    

15. Slavery and Slavery
    

16. Public Debts and Indirect Taxation
    

17. The Functions of Government
    

18. What We Must Do
    

19. The First Great Reform
    

20. The American Farmer
    

21. City and Country
    

22. Conclusion

Appendices
The United States Census Report on the Size of Farms
Condition of English Agricultural laborers
A Piece of Land

"I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself"

--Henry George