Christian sociology; Labor -- United States; Labor movement -- United States; Working class -- United States
Life in the Southern mill village, 40-44, 47
Livermore, California, railroad wreck, 99
Loom, contrast between earlier and later, 36-38
Lovejoy, Owen R., quoted, 186;
referred to, 188
Lowell, Massachusetts, cotton-mills, 34
Loyalty, labor’s lack of, 7
Lumber companies of the Northwest, bad conditions for laborers,
144, 145
Luxuries, defined, 114, 115;
examples of producers of, 116-134;
harmless and hurtful, 115
M
Machinery, 37;
has subordinated man, 46
McIntire, Miss Ruth, quoted, 175
Manufacture of clothing materials, 35, 36
Maverick Church in East Boston, 205
Men, as users of clothes, 34;
as creators of things, 15
Metal mine workers, 74;
wages, 75
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, picture referred to, 84
Michigan Central Railroad accident, 100
Migratory workers, 143
Millinery, 132, 139
Mills and workers, 33-47;
experience of a family, 44, 45
Mine workers, accidents, 72;
forgotten, 67;
wages, 73, 75
Minerals, valuable, 65, 68
Mining town, life in a, 5, 6
Missionary work at home, 127
Morgan Memorial Church, Boston, 198
Morris, William, demand for joy in work, 6
Motion-pictures, 43;
theater statistics, 130-132
Motorman a suicide, 107
Municipal ownership, San Francisco, 108
N
Napoleon, anecdote of, 201
National Child Labor Committee, 175, 181
National Consumers’ League, 52
Negro philosophy of work, 115;
work and wages on sugar plantation, 19, 20
Neighborliness, 11, 12
New York _Herald_, referred to, 119
Nickel, of Canada, 68
Northern textile workers, 44;
Southern groups, 40
O
“Open shop,” 45;
in steel mills, 42
Organization, of labor, 7;
of men questioning women’s admission to labor unions, 167-169;
of women workers, 165
Oriental visitor’s comment on American civilization, 79
P
Peace of the world and the bread question, 22
Philanthropy, city, 24
Pilgrim mothers, 162
“Pin-money” workers affecting regular wages, 164
Pioneers in the West and their descendants, 27, 31
Pittsburgh has bad housing conditions for steel workers, 89
Play and relaxation, 6, 207
Plymouth Church, Oakland, California, 205
Professor Parker’s report of I. W. W. in California, 142
Profit-sharing, 92, 93
R
Racial and residential phrases used by rival boy groups, 9;
more general racial groups, 55, 56
Railroads, casualty lists, 99;
churches and, 106;
expenses and profits, 103, 104;
government ownership, 106;
system statistics, 98;
work and workers, 99, 102
Ranch life, 3
Reader in Tampa, Florida, cigar factory, 119
Ready-made clothing bargains, 54, 55
“Red Jacket” mine, 74
Restless Americans, 95
“Riding out a bill,” 95
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