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Wage-Earning Women

Wage-Earning Women

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Social Movements

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ISBN10: 1231234865
ISBN13: 9781231234860
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...basis. Several potteries maintain lunch rooms for their workers, and in one there is also a sick benefit and burial fund association, organized and maintained by the employees. A member to be entitled to benefits must show that the disability from which she suffers was not brought on by her own misconduct. These undertakings, however, affect only a few. The great mass of workers still remains untouched by any special beneficent influence. The opportunity is a rare one for any group wise enough to meet it in a spirit of fairness, and yet with a determination to make working life more desirable and more profitable in every way for thousands of young women. CHAPTER VI Women Toilers In The Middle West It is the purpose here to show something of the conditions under which women work in several small cities in Iowa and Michigan, as these states were among those chosen to represent the section so long dominantly agricultural, but now developing important manufacturing interests. The census for 1900 gives Iowa 100,000 women in gainful occupations, and Michigan but 25,000 more. Eliminating women in the professions and in domestic service, we have left for industrial pursuits only about half of the total in both cases, not a great number, it is true, but relatively very important. It must be remembered that the entire population of the two states is less than the total number of women workers in the whole country. The states with new industrial interests should profit by the experiences of older sections, and avoid certain unfortunate conditions that have proved disastrous to the workers and to society as a whole. Desirable as such enlightened action seems to be, it does not appear to make a very strong appeal to those who are engaged in establishing industrial under...

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