............................................................ Address .................................................... TO MY FATHER THE REV. THOMAS A. ATKINSON CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Foreword xiii I The World of Work 1 II The World of the Rural Workers 17 III The World of the Spinners and Weavers 33 IV The World of the Garment Workers 49 V The World of the Miners 65 VI The World of the Steel Workers 79 VII The World of the Transportation Men 95 VIII The World of the Makers of Luxuries 113 IX The World of Seasonal Labor and the Casual Workers 135 X The World of Industrial Women 155 XI The World of the Child Workers 173 XII The Message and Ministry of the Church 191 Bibliography 211 Index 215 ILLUSTRATIONS These workers are the servants of civilization _Frontispiece_ PAGE The work which men do inevitably groups them together 10 Not many of us stop to consider the man who made possible the white bread that we eat 18 The worker in these mills is a worker and little or nothing else 42 The workers on the sidewalks of Fifth Avenue 50 We forget the men who are toiling underground 66 The New U. S. Bureau of Mines Rescue Car 74 Commerce and transportation are dependent upon the steel workers 82 The church must preach from the text “A man is more precious than a bar of steel” 90 Living upon the canal-boats and barges are the families of the workers 106 The cigarmakers carry no moral enthusiasm into their trade 122 The casual workers are the true servants of humanity 146 In the army of laborers the girl and the woman are drafted 162 Thousands of children in America are doing work which they ought not to do 186 A Russian Forum in session in the Church of All Nations, Boston 194 The Church of All Nations provided a sleeping place for the unemployed 202