By
CORNELIA STRATTON PARKER
Author of “AN AMERICAN IDYLL”
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMXXII
Working With the Working Woman
Copyright, 1922, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
| PAGE | ||
| Introduction | vii | |
| I. | No. 1075 Packs Chocolates | 1 |
| II. | 286 on Brass | 42 |
| III. | 195 Irons “Family” | 75 |
| IV. | In a Dress Factory | 109 |
| V. | No. 536 Tickets Pillow Cases | 137 |
| VI. | No. 1470, “Pantry Girl” | 173 |
| Conclusion | 226 |
The number of books on the labor problem isindeed legion. The tragedy of the literature onany dynamic subject is that most of it is written bypeople who have time to do little else. Perhaps thebest books on many subjects will never be writtenbecause those folk, who would be most competentto do the writing, through their vital connectionwith the problem at hand, never find the spareminutes to put their findings down on paper.
There could be no more dynamic subject thanlabor, since labor is nothing less than human beings,and what is more dynamic than human beings? Itis, therefore, the last subject in the world to be approachedacademically. Yet most of the approachto the problems of labor is academic. Men in sanctuariesforever far removed from the endless hum andbuzz and roar of machinery, with an intellectualbackground and individual ambitions forever farremoved from the interests and desires of those wholabor in factory and mill, theorize—and another volumeis added to the study of labor.
But, points out some one, there are books on laborwritten by bona-fide workers. First, the number isfew. Second, and more important, any bona-fide[viii]worker capable of writing any kind of book on anysu