There is too commonly as little sense of identity with the employer's interests, or of concern that any equivalent in work should be rendered for the pay received.

In forms irritating beyond expression employers are made to feel that their employees do not in the least mind wasting their material, injuring their property, and blocking their business in the most critical moments.

Under what possible system, save in a grievous dearth of laborers, can such labor be well off, and incompetence and indifference draw high wages?
3.

Our labor is for the most part very thriftless.

In the purchase and in the preparation of food--the chief item of expense in the workingman's family and that wherein economic habits count for most--men and women are alike improvident.
The art of making money go the farthest in food is comparatively unknown.