ABSTRACT
It is scarcely necessary to stress the practical and economic value of any investigation of the labour market; the inquiry would thus be of real material importance, apart from its administrative and ethical implications. It may be useful to survey the requirements of such an inquiry, without reference to the feasibility of such an undertaking with the means in existence in the various countries considered. It is suggested that the most suitable material would be afforded by a tribe that has not yet emerged from the primitive stage, and which is only beginning to acquire the wage-earning habit. A preliminary survey on ethnological and sociological lines will be needed, in order to secure a picture of the primitive state of the people. The method of recruiting adopted will presumably lend itself to accurate record, while medical inspection will provide valuable data as to the condition of the men when leaving home.
