Excerpt from Labor Problems and Labor Legislation Broadly conceived the labor movement is the progress of the masses of the people up from slavery, their escape through serfdom into the wage system, and their ever continuing struggle to improve their economic and social condition. Industrial progress, like the improvement of city streets, requires continual change. It is never finished. Many inconveniences are en dured as we pass from one stage of development to the next. To avoid greater disorder, certain organized methods are employed and temporary rules of conduct are obeyed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.