The Workers: An Experiment in Reality

The Workers: An Experiment in Reality

Mr. Wyckoff is now writing, from the notes he took during the second year of his life as a labourer, the narrative of his life as a labourer, the narrative of his experiment while in the west, where he had even more instructive experience, nearly starving on the streets of Chicago as a member of “the army of employed” living in the tenement houses, associating with sweat shop workers, attending anarchists meetings & c.

Here he found his most valuable sociological material. Before this time his experience had been as a labourer in normal conditions in rural districts; now he met with the complicated problems brought about by organized labour is overcrowded cities, strikes & c, but he writes about it not as a sociologist so much as an intelligent and impressionable observer.

Walter A. Wyckoff

William Heinemann

1898

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