Trade Unionism is a more hopeful remedy.

Large bodies of workers have by this means helped to raise themselves from a condition of industrial weakness to one of industrial strength.

Why should not close combination among workers in low-paid and sweating industries be attended with like results?
Why should not the men and women working in "sweating" trades combine, and insist upon higher wages, shorter hours, more regular employment, and better sanitary conditions?
Well, it may be regarded as an axiom in practical economies, that any concerted action, however weak and desultory, has its value.

Union is always strength.

An employer who can easily resist any number of individual claims for higher wages by his power to replace each worker by an outsider, can less easily resist the united pressure of a large body of his workmen, because the inconvenience of replacing them all at once by a body of outsiders, is far greater than the added difficulty of replacing each of them at separate intervals of time.