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inefficient.  But  a  full  consideration  of  their  case  would
show  that  this  physical,  moral,  industrial  incapacity  is
inseparable  from  the  disorder  of  a  society  which  has
failed  to  furnish  opportunities  of  educating  and  utilising
in  the  social  service  the  labour-power  which  in  some  kind
and  degree  attaches  to  every  human  being.  This  ablebodied
  pauper  class  cannot  be  regarded  as  a  wholly  separate
problem,  out  of  organic  relation  to  general  problems  of
industrial  and  social  order.  The  forces  which  are  responsible ­
  for  other  forms  of  “  unemployment”  are  engaged  in
depositing  and  maintaining  at  the  bottom  of  society  the
sediment  of  pauperism.  The  able-bodied  pauper  represents
so  much  potential  labour-power  which  is  wasted  now.
Appendix  A.
Unemployment  in  Registers  of  Labour  Bureaux.
The  following  statistics,  furnished  by  the  Labour  Bureaux
established  by  private  philanthropy  in  nine  places,  yield
some  information  as  to  the  occupations  of  the  unemployed ­
  during  1894.  It  must,  however,  be  borne  in  mind
that  five  of  the  nine  registers  are  in.  cities  (London,
Liverpool,  Salford,  Plymouth,  Ipswich)  and  that  four  of
them  are  in  the  Metropolis  (Chelsea,  St.  Paneras,  Battersea, ­
  Islington),  so  that  the  results  bear  only  upon  the
unemployed  problem  in  large  centres  of  population.  Moreover, ­
  the  absolute  numbers  on  the  registers  are  too  small
to  furnish  any  close  indication  of  the  proportion  of  unemployment ­
  in  the  several  trades,  while  the  number  of