The Social Creed of the ChuchesEaton & Mains, 1914 - 196 páginas |
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Página 7 - For the protection of the family, by the single standard of purity, uniform divorce laws, proper regulation of marriage, and proper housing.
Página 97 - FOR SUITABLE PROVISION FOR THE OLD AGE OF THE WORKERS, AND FOR THOSE INCAPACITATED BY INJURY.
Página 7 - For such regulation of the conditions of toil for women as shall safeguard the physical and moral health of the community; For the suppression of the "sweating system...
Página 7 - For the gradual and reasonable reduction of the hours of labor to the lowest practicable point, and for that degree of leisure for all which is a condition of the highest human life...
Página 6 - We deem it the duty of all Christian people to concern themselves directly with certain practical industrial problems. To us it seems that the churches must stand — "For equal rights and complete justice for all men in all stations of life.
Página 7 - For suitable provision for the old age of the workers, and for those incapacitated by injury.
Página 6 - To us it seems that the churches must stand— For equal rights and complete justice for all men in all stations of life. For the right of all men to the opportunity for self-maintenance, a right ever to be wisely and strongly safeguarded against encroachments of every kind. For the right of workers to some protection against the hardships often resulting from the swift crises of industrial change.
Página 47 - The two sexes differ in structure of body, in the functions to be performed by each, in the amount of physical strength, in the capacity for long-continued labor, particularly when done standing, the influence of vigorous health upon the future well-being of the race, the self-reliance which enables one to assert full rights, and in the capacity to maintain the struggle for subsistence...
Página 156 - As stated by Professor Clark of Columbia University: "If you want a man to work for you one day and one day only, and secure the greatest possible amount of work he is capable of performing you must make him work for twenty-four hours. If you would have him work a week it will be necessary to reduce the time to twenty hours a day ; if you want him to work for a month a still further reduction to eighteen hours a day. For the year fifteen hours a day will do...