The economic position of womenAcademy of Political Science in the City of New York
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The economic position of women
Academy of Political Science in the City of New York
Women -- Employment -- United States; Women -- United States -- Economic conditions
EDITED BY
HELEN MAROT
ABBOTT, EDITH. Women in industry; a study of American economic history.
N.Y.: Appleton. 1909.
[The history of women in industry in the United States. Also the
cotton, shoe, printing, clothing and cigarmaking trades in their
relation to women.--Contains a bibliography.]
ABRAHAM, M. E. & DAVIES, A. L. The law relating to factories and
workshops. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1901.
[English law.]
American association for labor legislation. Proceedings of ... annual
meeting, 1907-date. N. Y.
AUSTIN, C. B. Administration of labor laws 1909. N. Y.: Am. assoc. for
labor legislation. 1909.
BAYLES, G. J. Woman and the law. N.Y. Century. 1901.
[Statements and summaries of different state laws relating to the
employment of women.]
BLACK, CLEMENTINA. Sweated industry and the minimum wage. London:
Duckworth. 1907.
BOUCHERETTE, JESSIE, and others. Condition of working women and factory
acts. London: Stock. 1896.
[Purpose of the work is to prove that hardships result to women from
trade unions and factory acts.]
BRANDEIS, L. D. Women in industry; discussion of the U. S. Supreme
Court in the case of Curt Muller _v._ state of Oregon, upholding the
constitutionality of the Oregon ten-hour law for women and brief for
the state of Oregon. N. Y.: National consumers’ league.
BRANDEIS, L. D. & GOLDMARK, JOSEPHINE. Brief and argument for
appellants in the supreme court of the state of Illinois. N. Y.:
National consumers’ league.
[Legislation restricting the hours of labor for women, American
legislation, foreign legislation, dangers of long hours, causes and
effects of fatigue, effect of hours on health, safety, morals and
general welfare, benefit of short hours, remedies, regulations and
restrictions.]
BULLEY, A. A. & WHITLEY, MARGARET. Women’s work. N.Y.: Scribner. 1894.
(Soc. quest. of today ser.)
[Treats of women and trade unions in the textile and other trades,
influence of occupation on health, infant mortality, legislation.]
BUTLER, E. B. Women and the trades; Pittsburg 1907-08. N.Y.: Charities
publication committee. 1909.
[The report of a full investigation of the conditions of work of women
in Pittsburg.]
CADBURY, EDWARD, and others. Woman’s work and wages. London: T. Fisher
Unwin. 1906.
[Detailed analysis of conditions and wages of working women in the
different trades open to them in Birmingham, England; together with
suggested remedies for existing evils and descriptions of women’s
trade unions, girls’ clubs, etc., in Birmingham.]
CAMPBELL, HELEN. Prisoners of poverty; women wage-workers, their trades
and their life. Boston: Roberts. 1887.
[A record taken from life in New York.]
---- (same). Prisoners of poverty abroad. Boston: Roberts. 1889.
[Women wage-earners in London.]
---- (same). Women wage-earners. Boston: Roberts.
[Women as wage-earners in the past; conditions and wages in Europe
and the United States; remedies and suggestions for evils. Includes a
bibliography.]
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