| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Hunting the Man Farthest Down | [3] |
| II. | The Man at the Bottom in London | [21] |
| III. | From Petticoat Lane to Skibo Castle | [37] |
| IV. | First Impression of Life and Labour on the Continent | [53] |
| V. | Politics and Races | [70] |
| VI. | Strikes and Farm Labour in Italy and Hungary | [86] |
| VII. | Naples and the Land of the Emigrant | [105] |
| VIII. | The Labourer and the Land in Sicily | [124] |
| IX. | Women and the Wine Harvest in Sicily | [148] |
| X. | The Church, the People and the Mafia | [166] |
| XI. | Child Labour and the Sulphur Mines | [192] |
| XII. | Fiume, Budapest and the Immigrant | [217] |
| XIII. | Cracow and the Polish Jew | [240] |
| XIV. | A Polish Village in the Mountains | [264] |
| XV. | A Russian Border Village | [276] |
| XVI. | The Women Who Work in Europe | [296] |
| XVII. | The Organization of Country Life in Denmark | [319] |
| XVIII. | Reconstructing the Life of the Labourer in London | [341] |
| XIX. | John Burns and the Man Farthest Down in London | [360] |
| XX. | The Future of the Man Farthest Down | [377] |
THE MAN FARTHEST DOWN
The Man Farthest Down
CHAPTER I HUNTING THE MAN FARTHEST DOWN
On the 20th of August, 1910, I sailed from New York City for Liverpool, England. I had been given a leave of absence of two months from my work at Tuskegee, on condition that I would spend that time in some way that would give me recreation and rest.
Now I have found that about the only comfortable and satisfactory way for me to rest is to find some new kind of work or occupation. I determined therefore to carry out a plan I had long had in mind of making myself acquainted with the condition of the poorer and working classes in Europe, particularly in those regions from which an ever-increasing number of immigrants are coming to our country each year.