Introduction : Tawney on labour and labour movements / J.M. Winter -- Part I. The American labour movement -- The trade union revival of the thirties -- Organization and methods of American trade unionism -- The American labour movement : interpretation and comments -- Part II. Poverty as an industrial problem -- Part III. The assessment of wages in England by the Justices of the Peace -- The Act of 1563 and its antecedents -- Was the Act carried out? -- The motives for the assessment of wages in non-textile trades -- The economic motive for the assessment of wages in the textile trades -- The effects of the assessment of wages -- Part IV. The condition of China -- Part V. An occupational census of the seventeenth century.