Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their FutureCampbell, Helen
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Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
Campbell, Helen
Women -- Employment -- United States
Celibacy, 43.
Census Bureau, difficulties in work of, 102;
discrepancies in reports, 103.
Charity adds insult to injury, 251.
Charlemagne, 45.
Charleston, S.C., weekly wage in, 139.
Chicago, weekly wage in, 139.
Child labor, efforts against, 11;
in Prussia, 175, 178.
Chivalry, 44.
Cigar-making, women and children employed in, 108.
Cincinnati, weekly wage in, 139.
Cities, women's trades focussed in, 19.
Clement of Alexandria, on women, 41.
Cleveland, O., weekly wage in, 139.
Clothing-trade, women employed in, 108.
Colbert, 54.
Colorado, women workers in, 110;
labor-bureau reports, 122;
weekly wage in, 141.
Commodity, labor as a, 17.
Competition, among needle-workers, 22;
should be controlled, 252, 253.
Conciliation, arbitration and, 266.
Conditions, general, in Maine, 189;
Massachusetts, 190;
Connecticut, 192;
Rhode Island, 193;
New Jersey, 197;
Kansas, 199;
Wisconsin, 199;
Colorado, 200;
Indiana, 200;
Minnesota, 201;
California, 202;
Missouri, 204;
Michigan, 205;
in New York stores, 232.
Congres Feministe, 165.
Connecticut, women workers in, 110;
labor bureau organized, 121;
average wage, 141.
Cotton, first bale of, 67;
industry, 68;
in Italy, 179;
machinery and mills, 70, 71.
Cotton-goods trade, women in, 108.
Coxe, Tench, 68, 72, 115.
Credit, 54.
Crime and pauperism in labor reports, 113.
Criminal list fed by factory system, 91.
Custom hampers women workers, 22.
Cyprian, 41.
Dakota, working-women in, 110.
Daniel, Dr. Annie S., 223, 225, 226.
Deaconesses, 39.
De Gournay, 54.
Delaware, women workers in, 110.
Diet, effect oil industrial efficiency, 14.
Distribution of wealth, conflict over, 7, 8.
District of Columbia, working-women in, 110.
Divorces in Massachusetts labor reports, 114.
Domestic service, 57, 237;
in California, 122;
in Colorado, 122;
advantages of, 239;
disadvantages, 241;
employers of, 245;
Woman's Congress on, 246.
Donaldson, Principal, 39.
Dress-making, 254.
Drimakos, 34.
Dry-goods houses, abuses in, 265.
Dust in modern manufacture, 213, 218, 219.
Dynamic Sociology, 26.
Earnings, definition of, 127;
average of working-women in Massachusetts, 117.
Economic question, the question of the day, 7;
dependence, 27;
Greek thought, 29.
Education, technical, as affecting efficiency, 14;
of girls less practical than of boys, 23;
industrial, in Italy, 175;
in Sweden, 183;
compulsory, 178;
demanded for the employer and the public, 251.
Efficiency, differences in, regulate wages, 14;
affected by education, 14.
Embroidery, 48.
Emerson, Mary Moody, 66.
Emigration, Irish, 84;
increase of, 96.
Employment, fluctuation in, affects wages, 16.
Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII., 151.
Engels, Dr., on proportion of subsistence to total expenses, 118.
Evils recognized, 94.
Evolution, woman's industrial activity in harmony with, 270.
Expenses, average of working-women in Massachusetts, 118.
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