Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/womeninmodernind00hutcrich Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). WOMEN IN MODERN INDUSTRY * * * * * "What is woman but an enemy of friendship, an unavoidable punishment, a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable affliction, a constantly flowing source of tears, a wicked work of nature covered with a shining varnish?"--SAINT CHRYSOSTOM. "And wo in winter tyme with wakying a-nyghtes, To rise to the ruel to rock the cradel, Both to kard and to kembe, to clouten and to wasche, To rubbe and to rely, russhes to pilie That reuthe is to rede othere in ryme shewe The wo of these women that wonyeth in Cotes."[1] LANGLAND: _Piers Ploughman_, x. 77. "Two justices of the peace, the mayor or other head officer of any city (etc.) and two aldermen ... may appoint any such woman as is of the age of 12 years and under the age of 40 years and unmarried and forth of service ... to be retained or serve by the year, week or day for such wages and in such reasonable sort as they shall think meet; and if any such woman shall refuse so to serve, then it shall be lawful for the said justices (etc.) to commit such woman to ward until she shall be bounden to serve."--_Statute of Labourers_, 1563. "Every woman spinner's wage shall be such as, following her labour duly and painfully, she may make it account to."--JUSTICES OF WILTSHIRE: _Assessment of Wages_, 1604. "Sometimes one feels that one dare not contemplate too closely the life of our working women, it is such a grave reproach."--Miss ANNA TRACEY, _Factory Inspector_, 1913. "The State has trampled on its subjects for 'ends of State'; it has neglected them; it is beginning to act consciously for them.... The progressive enrichment of human life and the remedy of its ills is not a private affair. It is a public charge. Indeed it is the one and noblest field of corporate action. The perception of that truth gives rise to the new art of social politics."--B. KIRKMAN GRAY. * * * * * WOMEN IN MODERN INDUSTRY by B. L. HUTCHINS Author of "Conflicting Ideals" and (with Mrs. Spencer, D.Sc.) "A History of Factory Legislation" With a Chapter Contributed by J. J. Mallon London G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1915 PREFACE.