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SENATE

REPORT ON CONDITION

OF

DOCUMENT
No. 645

WOMAN AND CHILD WAGE-EARNERS
IN THE UNITED STATES

IN 19 VOLUMES

VOLUME V. WAGE-EARNING WOMEN IN STORES
AND FACTORIES

Prepared under the direction of

CHAS. P. NEILL

Commissioner of Labor

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1910

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

June 15, 1910. Resolved, That the complete report on the condition of woman and child wage-earners in the United States, transmitted and to be transmitted by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor in response to the act approved January twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled "An act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to report upon the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical condition of woman and child workers in the United States," be printed as a public document.

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CHARLES G. BENNETT, Secretary.

Method of selection of women included in the investigation.

12-14

Rates of wages of department-store women as shown by pay rolls.

27, 28

Moral influences surrounding department-store employment........

28-32

Relation of wages to moral condition of department-store women.

32-36

Chapter Π. -Earnings and opportunities for advancement of wage-earning women. 37-48

Chapter III.- Social environment of wage-earning women.

49-76

Income and cost of clothing for one year of 196 wage-earning women in

Boston, Mass...

71-73

Earnings and cost of living of wage-earning women..

73-76

Chapter IV.-Living conditions of wage-earning women in Boston, Mass....... 77-99

Chapter V.-Living conditions of wage-earning women in Chicago, Ill... 101-120

Chapter VI.-Living conditions of wage-earning women in Minneapolis and

121-137

St. Paul, Minn..

Chapter VII.-Living conditions of wage-earning women in New York City... 139-154

Chapter VIII.—Living conditions of wage-earning women in Philadelphia, Pa. 155-167

Chapter IX. Living conditions of wage-earning women in St. Louis, Mo..... 169-188

Chapter X.-Living conditions of waitresses employed in hotels and restaurants. 189-199

Chapter XI. Overtime and night work of wage-earning women......

Chapter XII. General tables.....

201-216

217-377

Table I.-Occupation, age, experience, and economic condition of wage-

earning women..

218-343

Table II.-Number and per cent of female wage-earners in department

and other retail stores, factories, etc., earning each classified amount

per week, by age.....

344-347

Table III.-Number of female wage-earners in department and other retail

stores, factories, etc., living at home and not living at home, and per

cent of each earning specified amounts..

348, 349

Table IV. Occupation, age, experience, and economic condition of wage-

earning women employed in packing houses, Chicago, Ill....... 350-353

Table V.-Conditions of employment in hotels and restaurants employing

women as waitresses.

354-367

Table VI.-Age, experience, and economic condition of waitresses em-

ployed in hotels and restaurants.....

368-377