“This book is Volume I of the ‘Social science series’ of the University of Missouri.... The study was made at first hand in New York City and is restricted to men’s and children’s outside wearing apparel and to women’s cloaks. The history of the clothing industry is traced, showing how the change was gradually made from custom to ready-made work, the development of the sweating and factory systems. The questions of wages, hours of employment, systems of production and of payment are described at length. Then the author turns to the conditions of employment at home, sanitation, income and expenditures, passing to regulation by law, trade unions, etc.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The work has been well done, and the result is not merely a good history of a special trade, but it teems with social facts of great value.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 240. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“Much research has evidently gone to the making of this bulky volume and its results are summed up with great clearness.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 327. Mr. 17. 350w.
“Throughout the volume, however, there is lacking the scientific accuracy of the trained statistician and the scholarly background of the student well read in economic history.” Edith Abbott.
+ – J. Pol. Econ. 14: 252. Ap. ’06. 810w. Outlook. 81: 631. N. 11, ’05. 60w.
“The slenderness of the author’s acquaintance with the actual conditions obtaining in the clothing industry in New York, is indicated by the omission of all reference to the decision of the Court of Appeals, in the case in re Jacobs, promulgated in 1885.” Florence Kelley.
– Yale R. 14: 433. F. ’06. 340w.