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
Pay, just, the first remedy, 25;
equal for both sexes, 257.
Peck, Charles F., work in New York, 119.
Pennsylvania, working-women in, 110.
Perkins, Mrs. Thomas, 65.
Philadelphia, average weekly wage in, 139.
Plato, 35.
Post-office, employment of women in, objected to, 21.
Potter, Beatrice, 154.
Poverty, no more desperate in Europe than in the United States, 9,
in London, 9,10;
produced by factory system, 91.
Prejudice, born of ignorance, etc., to be dismissed, 13.
Profit-sharing between employer and employed, 267.
Prostitution, fed by factory system, 91, 92;
by domestic service, 93;
statistics in, 171, 210;
recruited from factories, 114.
Providence, average weekly wage in, 139.
Quesnay, 54.
Question of the day, the economic one, 7.
Questions, three, to be answered, 13.
Ranke, on air required, 92.
Remedies, just pay the first, 251.
Reports, labor, six divisions of, 115. (_See_ also under various
States.)
Reybaud's "History of the Factory Movement," 92.
Rhode Island, working-women in, 110;
average wage in, 141.
Rice, Commissioner, deals with women wage-earners in Colorado report,
122, 123.
Richmond, Va., average weekly wage in, 139.
Robinson, Henry A., Michigan Labor Bureau work, 123.
Robinson, Mrs. H.H., 79.
Rogers, Thorold, 55;
value of his work, 15, 16.
Saleswomen, 131.
San Francisco, average weekly wage in, 139.
Sanitary conditions of factories and of operatives' homes, 92.
San Jose, average weekly wage in, 139.
Savannah, average weekly wage in, 139.
Savings of Massachusetts working-women, 118.
Seamstresses, in Paris, 163;
in New York, 163.
Seats in shops, 220.
Sewing-women, feeling stirred in behalf of, 119.
Sex, disability of, in the way of mobility of labor, 18.
"Sharing the Profits," by Mary W. Calkins, 267.
Shearman, T.G., on irregularity of conditions in the United States, 8.
Shirt-making, women in, 108.
Shoe-making, women in, 98, 99.
Silk-growing, 64, 65.
Silk industry, women and children in, 95, 108.
Silk manufactory, women and children in, in Italy, 179.
Simon, Jules, 163.
Single and married, proportion of, among working-women, 118.
Smith, Adam, 54;
summary of causes for difference in wages, 16.
Social life of working-people, 114.
Society, women workers frowned on by, 97.
Solidarity of humanity, 274.
Soul-moulding, Mazzini on, 273.
South Carolina, working-women in, 110.
Spinning-classes, 60;
patriotic, 63.
Statistics inadequate as to early conditions, 75.
Stevens, Dr., on increase of insanity, 254.
Stores, condition of women and children in, 258.
St. Louis, average weekly wage in, 139.
St. Paul, average weekly wage in, 139.
Straw-braiding in New England, 68, 100, 101;
straw-goods trade, women in, 108.
Sully, 53.
Supply and demand, 23.
Sweating-system, 150, 235;
parliamentary investigation of, end of report on, 153.
Tacitus, 38.
Technical education, as affecting efficiency, 14.
Tenement-house manufacture, 256.
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