Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic History |
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basters binders boots and shoes Boston boys Census of Manufactures chapter cigarmaking cigars clothing industry cotton industry cotton mills daughters decade decrease dollars early earned employment of women England establishment estimated fact factory system facture female given half hand Harriet Farley immigrant increase interest large number looms Lowell mill girls Lowell Offering Lowell system Lucy Larcom Lynn machinery male manu Manufac manufacture of boots Massachusetts men's ment mill girls mill towns number of employees number of persons number of women occupations overseers paid percentage of women period ployed ployment proportion of women rates ready-made Rhode Island shoebinders shoemakers skilled spinners spinning spinning frame statistics stitchers stitching strike tailor tenement tion total number trade Twelfth Census 1900 union Waltham weavers weaving week woman women and children women employed women operatives women were employed women's wages yarn York
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Page 77 - One consequence, mournful and injurious, of the ' chivalrous' taste and temper of a country with regard to its women is that it is difficult, where it is not impossible, for women to earn their bread. Where it is a boast that women do not labour, the encouragement and rewards of labour are not provided. It is so in America. In some parts, there are now so many women dependent on their own exertions for a maintenance, that the evil will give way before the force of circumstances.
Page 156 - POOR lone Hannah, Sitting at the window, binding shoes! Faded, wrinkled, Sitting, stitching, in a mournful muse! Bright-eyed beauty once was she, When the bloom was on the tree: Spring and winter Hannah's at the window, binding shoes. Not a neighbor Passing nod or answer will refuse To her whisper, "Is there from the fishers any news...
Page 378 - We also agree not to be engaged in any combination, whereby the work may be impeded, or the Company's interest in any work injured; if we do, we agree to forfeit to the use of the Company, the amount of wages that may be due to us at the time.
Page 332 - That all children within this province of the age of twelve years, shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end that none may be idle, but the poor may work to live, and the rich, if they become poor, may not want.
Page 327 - The introduction of children into our early factories was a natural consequence of the colonial attitude toward child labor, of the provisions of the early poor laws and of philanthropic efforts to prevent children from becoming a public charge, and, above all, of the Puritan belief in the virtue of industry and the sin of idleness.
Page 345 - Small help is scarce; a great deal of the machinery has been stopped for want of small help, so the overseers have been going round to draw the small children from the schools into the mills; the same as a draft in the army.
Page 38 - Manufactory in this city, being desirous to extend the circle of this part of their business, wish to employ every good spinner that can apply, however remote from the factory, and, as many women in the country may supply themselves with the materials there, and may have leisure to spin considerable quantities, they are hereby informed that ready money will be given at the factory, up Market street, for any parcel, either great or small, of hemp, flax, or woolen yarn. The managers return their thanks...
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Page 48 - Russian monarchy at the close of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. The...
Page 227 - ... tigation of the employment of women in the clothing trades in 1903, Mrs. Willet made this report : " There is, perhaps, no branch of the trade in which women are not to be found. Even in the pressing of coats, which is extremely heavy work, the exhausting effect of which is frequently noticeable on the men engaged in it, I have found women employed. But it is possible to visit hundreds of establishments without finding a woman doing this work."1...