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
Tennessee, working-women in, 110.
Tertullian, 40.
Texas, working-women in, 110.
Textile industries, women in, 98.
Thucydides, opinion of, 32.
Tobacco trade, women in, 110.
Trades, admission of women to, barred by men, 20;
women employed in, 108.
Tramp question, in labor reports, 113.
Trusts, alarm caused by growth of, 11.
Turgot, 54.
Tutelage, perpetual, of women, 36.
Umbrellas and canes, women employed in, 108.
Unemployed, condition of, 113.
Union, Working-Women's Protective, 230.
United States, Labor Bureau Reports on working-women, 124.
Unskilled labor, in majority, 22;
fierce competition in, 22;
surplus of, following Civil War, 101.
Utah, working-women in, 110.
Vacations of working-women in Massachusetts, 117.
Value of laborer's service to employer, elements of, 14.
Vapors, dangers of, in manufacture, 214.
Vegetables, cultivation of, by women, 263.
Vermont, working-women in, 110.
Vincent, Madame, 165.
Villerme, 169, 176.
Wage rates, present, in United States, 126.
Wages, why men receive more than women, 14, 21;
effect of industrial efficiency on, 14;
iron law of, 15;
effort to make standard of life conform to, 15;
tendency to a minimum, 16;
Adam Smith for causes of difference in, 16;
in stores, 259;
final effect of woman's work on, 270;
not fixed, 35;
field, 58;
eighteenth-century, 62;
in France, 161;
in Russia, 181;
New York, 129;
decrease in, 226;
in clothing, 130;
in Connecticut, 133;
in Italy, 181;
in California, 134;
Colorado, 135;
Iowa, 136;
Kansas, 136;
Maine, 134;
Minnesota, 135;
Michigan, 138;
Rhode Island, 134;
average, per State, 141;
average, for all cities, 141;
average, by cities, 139;
definition of, 127.
Wages question the question of the day, 7.
Wales, women in industries in, 160.
Walker, Gen. F.A., on differences in efficiency, 14;
difficulties of census enumeration, 104.
Ward, Lester F., 26.
Wealth, ratio of increase greater than that of population, 8;
greater aggregation of, in the United States than in Great Britain, 9.
Weavers of Baltimore, 81.
Weaving, colonial, 60.
West Virginia, working-women in, 110.
Widows, proportion of, among other workers, 118.
Windows, nailing down of, 62.
Wisconsin, average wage in, 141;
working-women in, 110.
Wives' earnings, 113.
Woman, primeval, 27;
Roman, 36;
property of, 52;
petition of, in France, 55;
International Council of, 79.
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