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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... factories , etc 45-47 Earnings of store and factory women compared ... 47 , 48 Chapter III . - Social environment of wage - earning women . 49-76 Women keeping house ..... 54-59 Women living in private families .. 59-62 Women living in ...
... factories , etc 45-47 Earnings of store and factory women compared ... 47 , 48 Chapter III . - Social environment of wage - earning women . 49-76 Women keeping house ..... 54-59 Women living in private families .. 59-62 Women living in ...
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... factory and department - store girls , not as a philanthropy but as a means of livelihood , said to the agent ... factories 88.1 per cent , contributed all their earnings ; and in Chicago and St. Louis the per cents were only slightly ...
... factory and department - store girls , not as a philanthropy but as a means of livelihood , said to the agent ... factories 88.1 per cent , contributed all their earnings ; and in Chicago and St. Louis the per cents were only slightly ...
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... 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 contribute their entire earnings to the family fund . In order that this ...
... 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 contribute their entire earnings to the family fund . In order that this ...
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... FACTORIES , ETC. , LIVING AT HOME WHO DID OR DID NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE FAMILY FUND , BY AGES - Concluded . PHILADELPHIA . Age of employees . as to All con- their tribu- earn- tions . ings . earn- Num- Number contributing- Per cent ...
... FACTORIES , ETC. , LIVING AT HOME WHO DID OR DID NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE FAMILY FUND , BY AGES - Concluded . PHILADELPHIA . Age of employees . as to All con- their tribu- earn- tions . ings . earn- Num- Number contributing- Per cent ...
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... FACTORIES , ETC. , EARNING EACH CLASSIFIED AMOUNT PER WEEK , BY AGE . Total Num- Number with average weekly earn- Per ... factory girls whether living at home or in the adrift class . Thus of the store girls living at home , ta ' ing the ...
... FACTORIES , ETC. , EARNING EACH CLASSIFIED AMOUNT PER WEEK , BY AGE . Total Num- Number with average weekly earn- Per ... factory girls whether living at home or in the adrift class . Thus of the store girls living at home , ta ' ing the ...
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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