Sweated industry and the minimum wageBlack, Clementina
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Sweated industry and the minimum wage
Black, Clementina
Minimum wage; Sweatshops
Trade unions, 182, 184;
mistakes of, 185;
as provident societies, 201, 202;
in cotton trade, 225, 226;
lack of trade organisation in Bristol cotton mills, 227, 228;
in New Zealand, 237
Underpaid worker: cost to the nation, 170–171
Underpayment: how it comes about, 144–160;
not caused by inefficiency, 159
United States: _see_ America
Ventilation, 224
Verney, Mr: Inspector of Factories, 222
Vines, Miss: Inspector of Factories, 31, 37
Wages: match box making, 5, 7;
shirt making, 10, 144–145;
paper-bag making, 12;
toy making, 13;
clay pipe making, 14;
ball covering, 16;
brush making, 20;
miscellaneous trades, 21;
packing and filling, 23, 26, 27, 28;
machinists, 41;
shop assistants, 60;
waitresses, 70;
female clerks and bookkeepers, 71;
railway porters, 77;
omnibus men, 83;
motor omnibus men, 92;
children’s wages for home work, 105–106;
wages, how determined, 152;
what is a fair wage, 161;
articles of dress, 188;
textile workers, 218–219;
tailoresses in New Zealand, 244;
factory wages in Australia, 252–254;
high wages and cheap production, 260–261
Waitresses: in restaurants, 67;
in railway stations, 68;
hours of work, 67, 68;
expenses of, 69;
general remarks on, 138
Washing appliances, 37
Watts: Alderman; of Manchester, 123
Weaving, 14
Webb: Catherine, 176
Webb: Mrs Sydney, 114
Wells: H. G., 72
Whiteley’s, Ltd.: William, 54
Women in the printing trades, 65
_Women’s Co-operative Guild_, 180
“Women’s employment in shops,” 67, 69
_Women’s Industrial Council_, 2, 3, 6, 7, 17, 56, 72, 188, 189
“Women’s work and wages,” 3, 39, 65
Women workers: difficulty of organisation, 185, 186
Wood chopping, 107
Wood polishing, 107
Woodward: S. W., 130
Work done below cost price, 164
Worth: meanings of, 162
Zola: E., 72
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Footnote 1:
A. Aftalion, “Le developpement de la fabrique et le travail à domicile
dans les industries de l’habillement.” Paris. Librairie du recueil J.
B. Sirey et du Journal du Palais.
Footnote 2:
“Home Industries of Women in London.” Report of an Inquiry in
thirty-five trades.
Footnote 3:
“Women’s Work and Wages.” A phase of life in an industrial city. By
Edward Cadbury, M. Cécile Matheson and George Shann, M.A.
Footnote 4:
Handbook to the Exhibition, p. 139.
Footnote 5:
Mrs F. G. Hogg was one of the most valued members of the Women’s
Industrial Council. Her ability, judgment, perseverance, and devotion
were all admirable, and her early death has left in the memories of
those who worked with her a blank that can never be filled up.
Footnote 6:
Report of the Chief Inspector, 1905, pp. 297–98.
Footnote 7:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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