The College, the Market, and the Court: or, Woman's relation to education, labor and lawDall, Caroline Wells Healey
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The College, the Market, and the Court: or, Woman's relation to education, labor and law
Dall, Caroline Wells Healey
Women -- Education; Women -- Employment; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
CONCORD pays from 8 to 10 cents an hour.
FAIRHAVEN gives to female photographers one-third the wages of men.
HADLEY pays three-fourths; to domestics, one-third; seamstresses,
one-quarter to one-third.
HOLYOKE, in its paper-mills, offers one-third to one-half.
LANCASTER pays for pocket-book making from 50 to 75 cents a day.
LEE pays in the paper-mills one-half the wages of men.
LOWELL.--The Manufacturing Company averages 90 cents a day. The
Baldwin Mills pay 60 to 75 cents a day.
NEWTON pays its washerwomen 75 cents a day, or 10 cents an hour.
NORTH BECKET pays to women one-third the wages of men.
NORTHAMPTON pays $5.00 a week.
SALISBURY, for sewing hats, $1.00 a day.
SOUTH READING, on rattan and shoe work, $5.00 to $10.00 a week.
SOUTH YARMOUTH, half the wages of men, or less.
TAUNTON, one-third to two-thirds the wages of men.
WALPOLE pays two-thirds the wages of men.
WAREHAM pays to its domestics from 18 to 30 cents a day; to
seamstresses, 50 cents to $1.00.
WILMINGTON pays two-thirds the wages of men.
WINCHESTER pays dressmakers $1.00 a day; washerwomen, 12 cents an
hour.
WOBURN keeps its women to work from 11 to 13 hours, and pays them
two-thirds the wages of men.
On the better side of the question, FALL RIVER testifies that
women, in competition, earn nearly as much as men.
LAWRENCE, from the Pacific Mills, that the women are _liberally_
paid. We should like to see the figures. The Washington Mills pay
from $1.00 to $2.00 a day.
STONEHAM gives them $1.50 per week.
WALTHAM reports the wages of the watch-factory as very
_remunerative_. In 1860, I reported this factory as paying from
$2.50 to $4.00 a week. Here, also, we should prefer figures to a
general statement.
BOSTON has now many manufactories of paper collars. Each girl is
expected to turn out 1,800 daily. The wages are $7.00 a week. In
the paper-box factory, more than 200 girls are employed; but I
cannot ascertain their wages, and therefore suppose them to be low.
I know individuals who earn here $6.00 a week; but that must be
_above_ the average.
The best-looking body of factory operatives that I have ever seen are
those employed in the silk and ribbon mills on Boston Neck, lately under
the charge of Mr. J.H. Stephenson, and those at the Florence Silk Mills
in Northampton, owned by Mr. S.L. Hill. The classes, libraries, and
privileges appertaining to these mills make them the best examples I
know; and this is shown in the faces and bearing of the women.
We are always referred to political economy, when we speak of the low
wages of women; but a little investigation will show that other causes
co-operate with those, which can be but gradually reached, to determine
their rates.
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