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Sweated industry and the minimum wage
Black, Clementina
Minimum wage; Sweatshops
Juvenile wage earners. By Nettie Adler, Hon. Sec. Committee on Wage
earning children. _Progress._ July 1906.
Footnote 46:
Minutes of Evidence. Questions 12644, 12758.
Footnote 47:
These facts and more to the same purpose may be found in an article by
Miss Adler in the _Guardian_ of May 9, 1906.
Footnote 48:
Some ethical gains through legislation, p. 86.
Footnote 49:
Pp. 12, 13, 14.
Footnote 50:
Inter-Departmental Committee on the employment of school children.
Minutes of Evidence, pp. 275, 455, 471.
Footnote 51:
Child Labor, p. 302.
Footnote 52:
Child Labor, p. 275.
Footnote 53:
Some ethical gains through legislation, p. 17.
Footnote 54:
Some ethical gains through legislation, p. 42.
Footnote 55:
Mr S. W. Woodward, of the firm of Woodward and Lathrop, Washington, in
a short paper called: “A Business Man’s View of Child Labour,” writes:
“It may be stated as a safe proposition that for every dollar earned
by a child under 14 years of age tenfold will be taken from their
earning capacity in later life.” Child Labor, p. 362.
Footnote 56:
J. Schoenhof. Economy of High Wages, p. 38.
Footnote 57:
It must not be assumed from the above anecdote that all factory girls
are foul-mouthed. This was by no means true even in the year after the
Dock strike, and is much less true now. But I have no doubt there are
still factories in which the habit of foul speech is a sort of
fashion.
Footnote 58:
Handbook to Sweated Industries Exhibition, p. 23.
Footnote 59:
Poverty. By J. Seebohm Rowntree, p. 229.
Footnote 60:
A Living Wage: Its ethical and economic aspect. Macmillans. New York,
April 1906.
Footnote 61:
_Ibid._, p. 136. I must not be understood as committing myself to
these figures, which apply to America. They are employed here to show
that a large proportion of American wage earners do not receive the
sum considered by experts as affording a “Living Wage.”
Footnote 62:
I have not personally referred to Mr Mitchell’s book, the title of
which is “Organised Labour.” Professor Ryan gives the pages from which
this extract comes: pp. 116, 117.
Footnote 63:
A Living Wage, p. 150.
Footnote 64:
_Ibid._, p. 164.
Footnote 65:
The Strength of the People. By Helen Bosanquet, p. 114.
Footnote 66:
Of course efficiency is valuable for other than financial reasons; but
we are dealing now only with the question of payment.
Footnote 67:
Economy of high wages, p. 392.
Footnote 68:
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