ABSTRACT
On the analysis of unemployment made then, the men seeking to live by casual work at the London Docks were to be regarded not as extraneous to industry when unemployed, but as part of it, responding to the demand for labour in the vicious demoralizing
form in which the demand was made. They were under-employed rather than surplus; the victims of an indirect form of sweating; proof of the potent attraction of the raffle. Men who would have rejected as inadequate a weekly wage of 255. could be kept hanging about the riverside indefinitely on a gambling chance of getting 6s. a day on an average of two or three days a week.
