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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Page 10
... 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 investigation what had seemed a ...
... 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 investigation what had seemed a ...
Page 19
... entire earnings into the family fund is not much smaller than among the factory and mill workers . This is shown to be the case in each city investigated except St. Louis , where a larger proportion of store women than of factory women ...
... entire earnings into the family fund is not much smaller than among the factory and mill workers . This is shown to be the case in each city investigated except St. Louis , where a larger proportion of store women than of factory women ...
Page 39
... entire country it is not possible to say . For the 7 cities included within the scope of this investigation figures are presented from the census , supplemented in certain cases by careful estimates to show the numbers employed in the ...
... entire country it is not possible to say . For the 7 cities included within the scope of this investigation figures are presented from the census , supplemented in certain cases by careful estimates to show the numbers employed in the ...
Page 44
... entire record must appear on the applica- tion blank and may be verified by the regular department - store detectives . The table following shows the number and per cent of the women employees earning classified rates of pay weekly in ...
... entire record must appear on the applica- tion blank and may be verified by the regular department - store detectives . The table following shows the number and per cent of the women employees earning classified rates of pay weekly in ...
Page 80
... entire ( a ) 444 b 5,682 114 1,372 2,018 2,906 88852 688 1,172 1,540 2,059 1,177 619 57 85 184 7,382 728 21,075 • Compiled from Special Reports of Census Office , Manufactures , 1905 , Part II . Compiled from Twelfth Census ...
... entire ( a ) 444 b 5,682 114 1,372 2,018 2,906 88852 688 1,172 1,540 2,059 1,177 619 57 85 184 7,382 728 21,075 • Compiled from Special Reports of Census Office , Manufactures , 1905 , Part II . Compiled from Twelfth Census ...
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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