- 1Dedication — Preface
- 2Introduction
- 3Chapter I — Earliest Years in a One-Roomed Home
- 4Chapter II — As a Child in the Workhouse
- 5Chapter III — Schools and Schoolmasters
- 6Chapter IV — Round the Haunts of His Boyhood
- 7Chapter V — In Training for a Craftsman
- 8Chapter VI — Tramping the Country for Work
- 9Chapter VII — One of London’s Unemployed
- 10Chapter VIII — The College at the Dock Gates
- 11Chapter IX — The College at the Dock Gates
- 12Chapter X — A Labour Member’s Wages
- 13Chapter XI — On the London County Council
- 14Chapter XII — Two of His Monuments
- 15Chapter XIII — The Task of His Life Begins
- 16Chapter XIV — The Man Who Fed the Poor
- 17Chapter XV — Turning Workhouse Children Into Useful Citizens
- 18Chapter XVI — On the Metropolitan Asylums Board
- 19Chapter XVII — A Bad Boys’ Advocate
- 20Chapter XVIII — Proud of the Poor
- 21Chapter XIX — The First Working-Man Mayor in London
- 22Chapter XX — The King’s Dinner — And Others
- 23Chapter XXI — The Man Who Paid Old Age Pensions
- 24Chapter XXII — Election to Parliament
- 25Chapter XXIII — Advent of the Political Labour Party
- 26Chapter XXIV — The Living Wage for Men and Women
- 27Chapter XXV — Free Trade in the Name of the Poor
- 28Chapter XXVI — Preparing for the Unemployed Act
- 29Chapter XXVII — Agitation in the House of Commons
- 30Chapter XXVIII — The Queen Intervenes
- 31Chapter XXIX — Home Life and Some Engagements
- 32Chapter XXX — Colonising England
- 33Chapter XXXI — The Revival of Bumbledom
- 34Chapter XXXII — Appeal to the People
- 35Chapter XXXIII — “The Happy Warrior”
From Workhouse to Westminster
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