V. I.

Lenin

Labour Protection Exhibits at the All-Russia Hygiene Exhibition in St. Petersburg in 1913 . St. Petersburg 1913. Pp. 78. Price not indicated.

This extremely useful book briefly catalogues the material on labour
protection exhibited at the All-Russia Hygiene Exhibition. It contains a
vast amount of valuable statistical data on a number of questions affecting
the lives of the workers, such as the number of workers employed in various
industries, female and child labour, the working day and wages, sanitary
conditions and labour protection, sickness and mortality among the workers,
alcoholism, workers’ insurance, and so on and so forth.

Appended is an excellent index to the literature on labour protection.

The absence, in many cases, of absolute figures (only percentages are
given) is a shortcoming of the book, as is the absence of a general
subject index that would enable the reader quickly to find the
data he needed on different questions.

It would be desirable to have these faults eliminated in subsequent
editions. All who are interested in the labour question, and all trade
unions, insurance and other working-class organisations, will undoubtedly
avail themselves of this book. Subsequent editions can and should make this
book a systematic catalogue of material on questions concerning the
conditions and protection of labour in Russia.

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