| + − | Bookm. 25: 294. My. ’07. 530w. |
“A faithful and photographic picture of aspects of the urban activity.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + | Dial. 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 480w. |
“Tho the book deserves the severest censure for its false coloring, its fatuous confusion of the anomalous with the typical, and its obliviousness of many of the distinctive characteristics of the movement, there are other respects in which it deserves cordial praise.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 600w. |
“For those who would see the industrial world as the workingman sees it, the book is invaluable.”
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 572. N. ’07. 170w. |
“Throws much fresh light upon that radical political movement loosely denominated socialism.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w. |
“It is all extremely interesting, valuable as a human document, and still more valuable as a contribution to the study of laboring men and their conditions. But it will not do to call the man a type.”