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
Factory, system, 75, 90;
girls, 78;
Lowell girls, 79;
laws, 81, 85, 235, 275;
conditions, 82, 84;
hours, 86;
women in, 89;
employments, effects of, 91;
ventilation, 92;
inspection, 222, 275;
married women in, 229;
movement, 92, 93.
Fair house, standard of, 262.
Families, condition of, 113.
Family life, demoralization of, 271.
Fawcett, Henry, opposition to women in trades, 20.
Fines, system of, 230, 233;
in stores, 258.
Florida, women workers in, 110.
Fortescue, 53.
France, hours of labor in, 183.
Fry, Eleanor, 63.
Fuller, Margaret, 119.
Furriers, 46.
Georgia, women workers in, 110.
Germany, attitude of Emperor William, 11;
hours of labor in, 185.
"Germinal," 174.
Gilman, N.P., on profit-sharing, 267.
Gloves, home manufacture of, 63.
Godfrey's Cordial in infant mortality, 147.
Greeley, Horace, 119.
Guilds, 45;
expulsion of women from, 47.
Habits, personal, as affecting efficiency, 14.
Half-time system for children, 113.
Harkness, Margaret, 154.
Harland, Sarah, on work for uneducated women, 253.
Harrison, Frederick, 17, 18.
Health, in factory employments, 91;
of working-women in Massachusetts, 113.
Homes, of working-people, 112;
for girls, 191;
in cities, 222, 226, 250.
Hosiery and knitting, women employed in, 108.
Hours of labor, in Massachusetts, 117;
in Michigan, 206;
in stores, 258.
Huxley, Thomas, description of London parish, 9, 10.
Idaho, working-women in, 110.
Ideals, alteration of, called for, 271.
Illinois, women workers in, 110.
Immobility of labor, 18, 19.
Income, defined, 127;
average, in Massachusetts, 116.
Indiana, women workers in, 110.
Indianapolis, average wage in, 139.
Individual development, 272.
Industrial, education, 252;
efficiency, 14.
Industries open to women in the United States, 124.
Infant mortality, 147.
Insanity among workers, 254.
Intellectual degeneracy of factory operatives, 91, 93.
Intelligence, effect on efficiency, 14;
effect of factory system on, 91.
Intemperance produced by factory system, 91.
Iowa, women workers in, 110;
labor bureau, 122.
"Iphigenia in Tauris," 31.
Irish, emigration, 84;
industries, 159.
Iron law of wages, defined and denounced, 15;
applicable to unskilled labor, 15.
Jevons, W.S., 147.
Justice, education in, 271;
a soul-growth, 273, 274.
Kansas, women workers in, 110;
labor bureau, 122;
average wage in, 89.
Kay, Dr., 89.
Kelley, Florence, 264.
Kettle, Rupert, on arbitration, 268.
Knights of Labor, on women's work, 270.
Knitting, 74;
and hosiery trades, women in, 108.
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