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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... women adrift or without homes . 10-12 Method of selection of women included in the investigation . 12-14 Proportion of women adrift and at home ... 14 , 15 Character of data secured ... 15-21 Earnings of home and adrift women . 22-27 ...
... women adrift or without homes . 10-12 Method of selection of women included in the investigation . 12-14 Proportion of women adrift and at home ... 14 , 15 Character of data secured ... 15-21 Earnings of home and adrift women . 22-27 ...
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... women with homes pay their entire earnings to the support of the family . DEFINITION OF WOMEN ADRIFT OR WITHOUT HOMES . In the initial question the phrase " practically without homes " has been used advisedly , for early in the ...
... women with homes pay their entire earnings to the support of the family . DEFINITION OF WOMEN ADRIFT OR WITHOUT HOMES . In the initial question the phrase " practically without homes " has been used advisedly , for early in the ...
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... girls whom we have termed " adrift " those women wage - earners who have at least one of the essentials of home . A number of cases from the schedules will serve to illustrate the principle of classification , and to throw into relief ...
... girls whom we have termed " adrift " those women wage - earners who have at least one of the essentials of home . A number of cases from the schedules will serve to illustrate the principle of classification , and to throw into relief ...
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... women classed as adrift is the broad fringe of wage - earning women who are not only the sole means of income for the home , but whose problems of life are so serious as to make their classification among the group of home women seem ...
... women classed as adrift is the broad fringe of wage - earning women who are not only the sole means of income for the home , but whose problems of life are so serious as to make their classification among the group of home women seem ...
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... WOMEN ADRIFT AND AT HOME . To determine the proportion of women living at home and adrift , the canvassing companies ' lists were used exclusively , each address being followed up and checked with reference to this subject even if no ...
... WOMEN ADRIFT AND AT HOME . To determine the proportion of women living at home and adrift , the canvassing companies ' lists were used exclusively , each address being followed up and checked with reference to this subject even if no ...
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adrift women age weekly yrs American Austrian average earnings average weekly earnings Bohemian Boots and shoes buyers CALIFORN Candy car fare Cashier cent Cigars and tobacco department stores ECONOMIC CONDI employment ETC.-WOMEN LIVING EXPERIENCE factory women Finisher Flowers and feathers Folder Forewoman German ginal Hand worker Hosiery and knit Industry ings 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 18 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 woman women adrift women employed Women's clothing Woolen and worsted Wrapper