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The economic position of women
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Women -- Employment -- United States; Women -- United States -- Economic conditions
VAN VORST, BESSIE and MARIE. The woman who toils. N. Y.: Doubleday,
Page. 1903.
[Popular account of the authors’ experiences as working women in the
various industries.]
VYNNE, NORA, & BLACKBURN, HELEN. Women under the factory acts. London:
Williams & Norgate. 1903.
[English factory acts stated and explained with reference to both the
employers’ and the employes’ point of view.]
WEBB, BEATRICE. (Editor). The case for the factory acts. London:
Richards. 1901.
[Papers by various authors; deals with factory legislation in England
and the colonies.]
---- (same). Women and the factory acts. London: Fabian society.
(Fabian Tract.)
WEBB, BEATRICE & SIDNEY. Problems of modern industry. N. Y.: Longmans,
Green. 1902.
[Diary of an investigator; women’s wages, women and the factory acts,
regulation of hours of labor, the sweating system.]
WILLETS, GILSON. Workers of the nation. N. Y.: Dodd, Mead. 1903.
WILLET, M. H. Employment of women in the clothing trade. N. Y.:
Columbia university. 1902.
WILSON, MONA. Our industrial laws. Working women in the factories,
workshops, shops and laundries and how to help them. London: Duckworth.
1899.
Women’s industrial council. Publications. London. Annual reports,
1892-date. Pamphlets: The case for and against a legal minimum wage for
sweated workers, 1909; Home industries of women in London, report of
an inquiry by the investigation committee, 1908; Labour laws for women
in Australia and New Zealand, 1906; in France, 1907; in Germany, 1907;
in Italy, 1908; in the United Kingdom, 1909; in the United States,
1907; Report of the national conference on the unemployment of women
dependent on their own earnings, held Oct. 15, 1907; Women’s wages in
England in the nineteenth century, 1906; Working women and the poor
law, 1909.
Women’s trade union league (National). Convention handbook 1909.
Chicago: National women’s trade union league. 1909.
[Brief description of 32 trades in which women work.]
---- (same). Proceedings, second biennial convention. Chicago: National
women’s trade union league. 1909.
---- (Boston). History of trade unionism among women in Boston. Boston:
Women’s trade union league. 1906.
[Deals with unions in the following trades: printing, bookbinding,
laundry, cigar, tobacco stripping, garment, music and telegraphy.]
---- (Chicago). Leaflets. A series for trade union propaganda.
---- (N. Y.) Report of interstate conference 1908. N. Y.: 1908.
[Report on organization in 43 women’s unions.]
The annual reports of the state bureaus of labor, and state factory
inspection departments; the bulletins of the U. S. dept. of labor; the
economic journals and monthly periodicals contain some of the most
important contributions to the literature of women in industry.
FOOTNOTES:
[74] This list makes no attempt at completeness, the aim being to
include only the most useful works in the field covered not included in
the indices of periodicals.
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