This is a meaty little book traversing the labor situation. It is "a collection of ideas and facts for the purpose of stimulating thought and awakening a sense of responsibility: it aims to call attention to some of though spiritual elements in industrial readjustment."
The new spirit is that "which proclaims industry a form of service. It is insisting that labor shall have a first claim on the product."
Industrial peace will come when the whole situation is lifted into the high plane of conscience; when all relations of life are viewed and dealt with on an ethical and spiritual basis. In presenting the ethical significance of certain phases of the industrial situation the author has rendered a timely and needed service.
—The Homiletic Review, Volume 79 [1920]