“A record of investigation and philanthropic effort, principally in the city of Birmingham. The refrain of the whole is a complaint from the humanitarian point of view against existing conditions. It is a tale of honest effort to raise the standard of life.” (Spec.) “The book deals with conditions of work, life, recreation, and ameliorative agencies, wages, legislation, home life, recreation, clubs, trade union, legal minimum wage, and wages boards.” (Nation.)
“Three of the four aims which the writers of this book set before themselves have been successfully accomplished.”
| + + − | Acad. 71: 157. Ag. 18, ’07. 1210w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 161. O. ’07. |
“The plan of the present study has been well worked out.” S. P. Breckinridge.
| + + | Am. J. Soc. 13: 411. N. ’07. 1230w. |
“Contains a goodly array of facts interesting to the economist and social reformer. The value of these facts would have been considerably enhanced by a more scientific method of arrangement, and a clearer view on the part of the writers of the volume touching the kind of book they were setting themselves to produce.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 140. S. 1. 810w. |
“The book is interesting and suggestive, and if it has not furnished any new or valuable statistical evidence on the subject of the employment of women, it has succeeded where some of the more detailed studies have failed—in giving the public a thoroughly readable account of an important social problem. The book undoubtedly loses in unity from the fact of its having had three authors, but it must also gain from the very special knowledge that each of the three possessed.” Edith Abbott.
| + + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 563. N. ’07. 870w. | |
| Nation. 83: 75. Jl. 26, ’06. 40w. |