VI. Introductory 165

VII. A Maker of Shoes at Lynn 169

VIII. The Southern Cotton Mills 215
The Mill Village
The Mill

IX. The Child in the Southern Mills 275


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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS



Miss Marie and Mrs. John Van Vorst in their factory costumes,
_Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

"The streets are covered with snow, and over the snow the soot
falls softly like a mantle of perpetual mourning," 12