Christian sociology; Labor -- United States; Labor movement -- United States; Working class -- United States
Bible, study class members, Y. W. C. A., 4, 5;
unopened to Jewish radicals, 62
Billy Sunday meetings, 195
Bituminous coal-fields, 69
Booth, Maud Ballington, referred to, 162
Brakeman, accident to a, 100
Brick and mortar not the soul of the city, 33
Bridge cables, steel, 82
Burley tobacco, 173
C
Canada, western grain-belt, 17
Cane-sugar makers, 18, 19
Casual workers and the common man, 153
Casualty lists. See _Accidents_
Catholics, 90, 120, 194, 196
Cemeteries, well-tended Western, 27
Chaplain beloved, a, 203
Chicago, Industrial Exhibition, picture of a mother, 58;
stock-yards, 150
Child labor, in agriculture, 174-185;
in home work, 58;
reasons for, 176;
task of the church, 187-189
Child Labor Law, Federal, very helpful but unconstitutional, 185
Child Labor, National Committee on, 188;
Sunday, 188
“Children in Agriculture,” quoted, 175
Children’s Bureau in Washington, D. C., 90
China, actors in, 130
Christ. See _Jesus Christ_
Christmas-time work, 139
Church, duty of, 197;
responsibility, 151, 152;
statistics
of per cent. of working people, 194;
work, past and present, 28, 191-209;
with country people, 27-32;
with factory folks, 46-48;
with garment-makers, 62, 63;
with miners, 75-78;
with rail and vessel forces, 109-111;
with steel workers, 91-94;
with Tampa cigarmakers, 122, 123;
with theater people, 130;
with transient classes, 150-153;
with women and children, 169-171, 187-189
Churches, criticism of, 194;
faulty distribution of, 127;
indifference to, 195
Cigarmakers, 116-120;
social worker’s story, 125
City and country life depicted and distinguished, 1, 23, 24
City church statistics, 194
Clothes and civilization, 34
Clothing industry, 54;
labor troubles in, 58-61;
materials, 34-36
Coal, importance of, 65, 66;
mining methods and miners, 67-74
Cœur d’Alene district, Idaho, 68, 75
Cold storage, 178
Conservation, of fuel, 11;
of wheat, 18
Consumers’ League, 52, 171
Cooper Union, New York City, a social center, 62
Cooperation, 170, 184;
among the churches, 200
Copper, 68, 69, 74
Corn and hogs, price of, 21
Corn belt, 21
Cost of living, 9, 178
Cotton, 36, 37;
importance increased by the invention of the cotton-gin, 37
Cotton-mills and workers, in Northern cities, 34, 44-46;
in
Southern towns and villages, 40-43, 47
Coxey’s army, 135-137
Cuban traits, 121
D
Dressmaking industry, 53
Du Page County, Illinois, Presbyterian Church, 206
Duty of the church, the, 197
E
Early ambitions, 3
Early Christians, influence of, 203
Effects of specialization in work, 7
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