Joe Blaine runs a printery on the eighth floor of a loft building, below a hat factory full of young working girls. When fire sweeps the building on East Eighty-First Street, he is forced to face what low wages, high prices and careless owners mean for the nine-tenths who do the city’s work, and he throws himself into their cause.
A fervent Progressive Era novel of labour and conscience from the poet of “Bread and Roses.” Download the free EPUB.