ABSTRACT
The American worker lives in comfortable circumstances. On the whole, he is not familiar with oppressively impoverished housing conditions. He is not forced out of his home into the tavern, because his home is not like the 'room' of the worker in the large cities of continental Europe. It would be precarious to wish to show in detail the effect that a standard of living as different as that of the American worker has upon social perception. Any dissatisfaction with the 'existing social order' finds difficulty in establishing itself in the mind of the worker, particularly if his endurable - indeed, comfortable - standard of living seems permanently assured and up to the present time he has been able to be quite certain of that.
