Sweated industry and the minimum wageBlack, Clementina
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Sweated industry and the minimum wage
Black, Clementina
Minimum wage; Sweatshops
_Free Trade League_, 220
Gaskell: P, 217
Germany, 143;
cotton trade in, 221;
possibility of legislation to curtail sweating, 264, 265
Gissing: Geo., 72
Glass works in America, 120–121
_Guardian: The_, 210
Half timers, 112
Health: of home workers, 17;
of factory workers, 25;
of shop assistants, 55;
of child workers, 115, 121–125
Heavy loads, 110–111
High wages and cheap production, 260
“Historical Development of the Factory Acts,” 114
Hogg: Mrs, 18, 118
Home Industries for women: report on, 2
Home Office enquiry, 125
Home work: report on, 2;
in Birmingham, 3;
match box making, 3;
shirt making, 10;
paper-bag making, 11;
toy making, 13;
pipe making, 13;
bird cage making, 14;
weaving, 14;
boot finishing, 15, 105;
ball covering, 15;
tooth brush making, 18, 20;
miscellaneous trades, 21
Home workers: Condition of, 17;
general remarks on, 132;
impossibility of organisation, 186
Hours of work: piece work, 16;
long hours in factories, 29, 30, 31;
shop assistants, 53, 58;
in Scotland, 66;
waitresses, 69;
railway men, 77;
omnibus men, 83;
motor omnibus men, 92;
children’s hours of work at home, 108;
in tin works, 110;
work at home after closing hours, 188;
women in textile trades, 218
House of Lords Committee on Early Closing of Shops, 68
Hutchins: Miss B. L., 114
Industrial efficiency: effect of Child Labour on, 130–131;
caused by fair wages, 227
Industrial Unions of New Zealand, 234
Ireland: copartnership in, 179
Ironing, 108
Irwin: Miss, 3, 17, 66, 67, 68, 69
Jackman: Marshall, 124, 125
Jam-making. _See_ Confectionery
Jarvis family: History of, 7
Johnson: Dr, 157
“Juvenile wage earners and their work,” 108, 123
Kelley: Mrs Florence, 120, 125, 129
Kid belt making, 107
Labour and other commodities: difference in essence between, 171
Labour co-partnerships, 176;
in Ireland, 179
Laundries: long hours in, 31
Laundry work, 108
Lead poisoning: risk of, 37
Legislation for a minimum wage: need of, 272
Living wage: estimate of, 149
London County Council: as employer, 100;
contrasted with private companies, 101;
bye-laws relating to child labour, 119, 124;
Medical Officer’s report, 123
_Longman’s Magazine_, 206
MacDonald: J. Ramsay, 65
Manchester physicians’ report on child labour in 1784, 112
“Manufacturing population of England,” 217
Martindale: Miss, Inspector of Factories, 111
Match box making, 3, 7;
child workers, 106
Matching girls, 109
Matheson: M. Cécile, 3
Maxwell: Mr, Scottish Wholesale Co-operative Society, 261, 262
Maxwell: W. B., 72
_Melbourne Age: The_; crusade against sweating, 247
Minimum wage: legislation in New Zealand, 231–246;
in Australia, 246–258;
practicability of legislation in England, 258–259;
effect of a minimum wage, 271
Miscellaneous trades, 21
Mitchell: John, 149–151
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