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Page 113
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publishers_,
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, BOSTON.
PRISONERS OF POVERTY.
WOMEN WAGE-WORKERS: THEIR TRADES AND THEIR LIVES.
BY HELEN CAMPBELL,
AUTHOR OF "THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB," "MRS. HERNDON'S INCOME," "MISS MELINDA'S
OPPORTUNITY," ETC.
16mo. Cloth. $1.00. Paper, 50 cents.
The author writes earnestly and warmly, but without prejudice, and her
volume is an eloquent plea for the amelioration of the evils with
which she deals. In the present importance into which the labor
question generally has loomed, this volume is a timely and valuable
contribution to its literature, and merits wide reading and careful
thought.--_Saturday Evening Gazette._
She has given us a most effective picture of the condition of New York
working-women, because she has brought to the study of the subject not
only great care but uncommon aptitude. She has made a close personal
investigation, extending apparently over a long time; she has had the
penetration to search many queer and dark corners which are not often
thought of by similar explorers; and we suspect that, unlike too many
philanthropists, she has the faculty of winning confidence and
extracting the truth. She is sympathetic, but not a sentimentalist;
she appreciates exactness in facts and figures; she can see both sides
of a question, and she has abundant common sense.--_New York Tribune._
Helen Campbell's "Prisoners of Poverty" is a striking example of the
trite phrase that "truth is stranger than fiction." It is a series of
pictures of the lives of women wage-workers in New York, based on the
minutest personal inquiry and observation. No work of fiction has ever
presented more startling pictures, and, indeed, if they occurred in a
novel would at once be stamped as a figment of the brain....
Altogether, Mrs. Campbell's book is a notable contribution to the
labor literature of the day, and will undoubtedly enlist sympathy for
the cause of the oppressed working-women whose stories do their own
pleading.--_Springfield Union._
It is good to see a new book by Helen Campbell. She has written
several for the cause of working-women, and now comes her latest and
best work, called "Prisoners of Poverty," on women wage-workers and
their lives. It is compiled from a series of papers written for the
Sunday edition of a New York paper. The author is well qualified to
write on these topics, having personally investigated the horrible
situation of a vast army of working-women in New York,--a reflection
of the same conditions that exist in all large cities.
It is glad tidings to hear that at last a voice is raised for the
woman side of these great labor questions that are seething below the
surface calm of society. And it is well that one so eloquent and
sympathetic as Helen Campbell has spoken in behalf of the victims and
against the horrors, the injustices, and the crimes that have forced
them into conditions of living--if it can be called living--that are
worse than death. It is painful to read of these terrors that exist so
near our doors, but none the less necessary, for no person of mind or
heart can thrust this knowledge aside. It is the first step towards a
solution of the labor complications, some of which have assumed foul
shapes and colossal proportions, through ignorance, weakness, and
wickedness.--_Hartford Times._
_Sold by all booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the
publishers_,
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, BOSTON.
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