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  • The "General Strike" as a labour weapon 

    Chart, D.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
    The special point to which your attention will be directed this evening is the comparatively novel use of the "general" or "sympathetic" strike as a means of compelling a settlement of disputes between employers and ...
  • The study of Irish economic history 

    Chart, D.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1919)
    The subject of this evening's paper is not one which has frequently attracted the attention of members of this society. This is regrettable in many ways. Often a proper treatment of disease is impossible without an ...
  • Two centuries of Irish agriculture - a statistical retrospect, 1672-1905 

    Chart, D.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
    In economic, as in political problems, a knowledge of the past is essential to the proper understanding of the present. At this time, therefore, when so many Irishmen are hoping and striving for a general industrial ...
  • Unskilled labour in Dublin: its housing and living conditions 

    Chart, D.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1914)
    Perhaps the greatest difficulty in the way of the social reformer is his lack of adequate information. He perceives, as all, who are not blind or deaf, must perceive, that all is not well with the commonwealth, that ...