Report on Condition of Woman and Child-wage Earners in the United States: Wage-earning women in stores and factoriesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - Child labor |
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... grade , are prac- tically without homes in the large cities and dependent for a living upon their own earnings ? What are the average earnings of such women ? How do these earnings compare with the general wage level for all women in ...
... grade , are prac- tically without homes in the large cities and dependent for a living upon their own earnings ? What are the average earnings of such women ? How do these earnings compare with the general wage level for all women in ...
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... grade of housing and food , contribution to needy relatives , expenditures for car fare , amusements , etc. , are given in detail for the women adrift . In all too many instances the reader will find , between the expendi- tures for the ...
... grade of housing and food , contribution to needy relatives , expenditures for car fare , amusements , etc. , are given in detail for the women adrift . In all too many instances the reader will find , between the expendi- tures for the ...
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... grading of shelter and food . Four grades were used in the field work , both for food and for shelter . The grading ... grade in addition to attrac- tive surroundings . The general policy was to count the use of a house sitting room as ...
... grading of shelter and food . Four grades were used in the field work , both for food and for shelter . The grading ... grade in addition to attrac- tive surroundings . The general policy was to count the use of a house sitting room as ...
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... grades , which constitute not more than 20 per cent of the employees . A probation officer of long experience said to the agent : " I have found very few girls who were employed at the time of arrest . I doubt very much if many girls ...
... grades , which constitute not more than 20 per cent of the employees . A probation officer of long experience said to the agent : " I have found very few girls who were employed at the time of arrest . I doubt very much if many girls ...
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... grade ; the people refined ; but for all this she had to pay $ 7 , which included only room and board . Such cases were decidedly in the minority , however . The average weekly earnings for the group is but $ 6.78 and the cost of living ...
... grade ; the people refined ; but for all this she had to pay $ 7 , which included only room and board . Such cases were decidedly in the minority , however . The average weekly earnings for the group is but $ 6.78 and the cost of living ...
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adrift women American Austrian Aver average earnings average weekly earnings Bohemian Boots and shoes buyers CALIFORN Candy car fare cent Cigars and tobacco department stores ECONOMIC CONDI employment ence ETC.-WOMEN LIVING Excellent EXPERIENCE factory women Fair Finisher Flowers and feathers Folder Forewoman German ginal Hand worker Hosiery and knit Industry investigation Irish Italian Jute Laundry living at home LIVING AT HOME-Continued living conditions lodging houses longest days Machine operator meals Men's Millinery MINNEAPOLIS AND ST number of women number reported Occupation overtime Packer Paper boxes Polish Printing and publishing retail stores RETAIL STORES-WOMEN rience Ruching and neckwear Russian Hebrew Saleswoman Stitcher store employees store women Stripper Swedish TABLE I.-OCCUPATION Telephone exchange TION OF WAGE-EARNING Tobacco and cigars total number Trimmer wage wage-earning women WAGE-EARNING WOMEN-Continued Waist waitresses Weaver week weekly contri Winder woman women adrift women employed Women's clothing Woolen and worsted Wrapper