Browsing Archive JSSISI: 1847- Complete Collection by Title
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What a perfect income tax of ten per cent would produce
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)It is the plain duty of every subject of this great empire to contribute any information or suggestion that he may deem of use towards sustaining the contest in which we are now engaged. In discharging this duty, I do ... -
What are the causes of the distressed state of the Highlands of Scotland?
(Belfast Social Inquiry Society, 1852)It will not be necessary for me to occupy much of your time in adducing evidence of the nature and extent of the distressed state of the poorer classes in the Highlands of Scotland. To account for this distress, many of ... -
What are the causes of the prosperous agriculture in the Lothians of Scotland?
(Belfast Social Inquiry Society, 1852)The subject to which I propose to direct your attention in this paper is expressed in the following question :? What are the causes of the prosperous agriculture in the Lothians of Scotland ? You have all, no doubt, heard ... -
What are the duties of the public with respect to charitable savings banks?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1852)Here are two kinds of savings' bank, a joint stock savings' bank, and a government savings' bank. But the sort of institution to which I am about to direct your attention, is quite distinct from these in some essential ... -
What is the best measure of employment and unemployment in Ireland?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1988)The paper develops a framework to be applied in the Labour Force Surveys for the measurement of labour force aggregates according to international recommendations. While applying the international recommendations ... -
What the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland has effected (1847-1880)
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)Without referring to the dissemination of sound statistical knowledge and a knowledge of Political Economy, and the correction of erroneous impressions, and the saving of waste of capital by discouraging such enterprises ... -
What the worker should know
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)A belief in the extension of education for the multitude in new ways and in subjects hitherto untouched by the masses is manifest. Three important schemes are in operation. -
When Worse is Better: Economic Policy Making in the Two Irelands of the mid 1950s
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)Economic Development (1958) remains a document associated with T.K. Whitaker’s role in Ireland’s shift away from protectionist economics. Whatever the report’s exact role in changing the direction of Irish economic strategy, ... -
Whether the union or the county should be taken as the district for local registers of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In the discussions which have arisen from the suggestions I have made as to local registers for small holders of land, one of the questions raised is the suggestion of making the county the district for local registration, ... -
White Paper on Educational Development
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1981)The Confederation of Irish Industry has made a detailed response to the "White Paper on Educational Development" which was presented by the Government before each House of the Oireachtas in December 1980. In general terms, ... -
Who is the Populist Irish Voter?
(SSISI, 2017)Across the EU, the Great Recession begot economic and political crisis heralding a renewed march towards populism and party system fragmentation. Much commentary about Ireland remarked on the absence of a populist surge ... -
The Wine Duties and their effects on the commercial relations between the British Dominions and France
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)In the following paper I propose to lay before you a summary of the history of the wine duties, and of the present condition of the trade, chiefly with reference to our commercial relations with France. Although these ... -
The wine duties, with reference to their effects on the commercial relations between the British dominions and France
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1853)In the following paper I propose to lay before you a summary of the history of the wine duties, and of the present condition of the trade, chiefly with reference to our commercial relations with France. Although these ... -
The woods, forests, turf-bogs, and foreshores of Ireland: opportunity for, and advisibility of, establishing government management and protection
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)In the paper on "Forestry in Ireland," read by me before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, in July, 1889, I described at some length the forestry regulations of the principal European countries, and ... -
Work and the workman: an address to the Trades' Union Congress
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)I believe I am indebted for the privilege of addressing you today to the impression produced on the minds of some of your leaders by a discourse which I delivered at a recent meeting of the British Association for the ... -
Work of International Labour Office
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)I propose in this paper to give you a short account of the work accomplished by the International Labour Office in the sphere of labour statistics since its foundation in 1920 with special reference to the subject of ... -
Workers' participation in management
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1971)It seems to me that it would be quite inappropriate to confine this paper to a discussion on the role of workers' representatives at top management level. Management is a function which occurs at all levels in a firm, ... -
The workhouse as a mode of relief for widows and orphans
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)The principles on which the Irish Poor Law is to be administered for the future must be learned not from the traditions of the changes introduced in England in 1834, nor from the idle theories prevalent in Ireland in ... -
The working of tribunals of commerce, composed of one legal and two commercial judges, as exhibited in the Hamburg Tribunal ; founded on communications received from Dr. Versmann, the Vicepresident of that court
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1858)It has been my anxious desire to propose only such modifications as are requisite in order to carry out the fundamental principles, and thus to realize the essential benefits of Tribunals of Commerce. With this view I ... -
Workmen's compensation: some suggested reforms
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)Impending legislation relating to Workmen's Compensation makes this a suitable time for one to suggest some necessary reforms in the existing law. A Departmental Committee appointed by the Government is, I understand, ...