Table of Contents:
  • Introduction (analysis of chapters) / J.R. Commons
  • The trade agreements / J.R. Commons
  • The miners' union : its business management / Frank Julian Warne
  • The teamsters of Chicago ; The New York builders trade / J.R. Commons
  • The Chicago building trades dispute of 1900 / Ernest L. Bogart
  • The incorporation of trade unions (symposium)
  • Decisions of courts in labor disputes
  • State arbitration and the minimum wage in Australasia / Henry W. Macrosty
  • Labor conditions in slaughtering and meat packing / J.R. Commons
  • The introduction of the linotype / George E. Barnett
  • The premium plan of paying for labor / F.S. Halsey and James Rowan
  • The printing trades and the crisis in British industry (Restriction of Output) / G. Binney Dibblee
  • The system of apprenticeship at the Baldwin Locomotive Works / S.M. Vauclain
  • The sweating system in the clothing trade / J.R. Commons
  • Slavs in coal mining / Frank Julian Warne and J.R. Commons
  • The Negro artisan (symposium)
  • Women in the clothing trade / Mabel Hurd Willett
  • Women's wages in manual work / M.B. Hammond
  • Employment of girls in the textile industries of Pennsylvania / Peter Roberts
  • The printer's health / J.W. Sullivan
  • Hours of labor / U.S. Industrial Commission
  • Massachusetts labor legislation / Sarah Scovill Whittelsey
  • State regulation of employment (decision of courts)
  • The benefit system of the Cigar Makers' Union / Helen L. Sumner
  • Employers' liability and accident insurance / Adna F. Weber
  • Workmen's insurance in Germany / Norbert Pinkus
  • Insurance against unemployment / William Franklin Willloghby
  • Public employment offices in the United States and Germany / Ernest L. Bogart.