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 28
... receiving over $ 50 a week , it is possible that the exceptional department store saleswomen of the highest earnings are slightly underrepresented in this report . On the other hand , and so far as all store women are concerned ...
... receiving over $ 50 a week , it is possible that the exceptional department store saleswomen of the highest earnings are slightly underrepresented in this report . On the other hand , and so far as all store women are concerned ...
Page 43
... received by any of the women visited , though the department stores from which pay - roll data were secured had some women buyers earning nearly $ 200 a week . These may have begun as cash girls at a weekly wage of from $ 3 to $ 4 , or ...
... received by any of the women visited , though the department stores from which pay - roll data were secured had some women buyers earning nearly $ 200 a week . These may have begun as cash girls at a weekly wage of from $ 3 to $ 4 , or ...
Page 53
... received as a part of the wage is not included . AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS AND COST OF LIVING ( FOOD , SHELTER , HEAT , LIGHT , AND LAUNDRY ) FOR WOMEN OTHER THAN WAITRESSES , BY CITIES , AND FOR WAITRESSES IN ALL CITIES . Women keeping ...
... received as a part of the wage is not included . AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS AND COST OF LIVING ( FOOD , SHELTER , HEAT , LIGHT , AND LAUNDRY ) FOR WOMEN OTHER THAN WAITRESSES , BY CITIES , AND FOR WAITRESSES IN ALL CITIES . Women keeping ...
Page 62
... received the agent about 9 p . m . in the room of a man lodger , who had already gone to bed . This seemed to be the only available sitting room and disconcerted no one save the agent . While such conditions , through custom and long ...
... received the agent about 9 p . m . in the room of a man lodger , who had already gone to bed . This seemed to be the only available sitting room and disconcerted no one save the agent . While such conditions , through custom and long ...
Page 70
... receiving men friends in their rooms , etc. An attractive , intelligent girl in one of these houses was asked why it was that the girls who needed such a home the most - the girl getting low wages and living alone - so often would not ...
... receiving men friends in their rooms , etc. An attractive , intelligent girl in one of these houses was asked why it was that the girls who needed such a home the most - the girl getting low wages and living alone - so often would not ...
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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