Women Wage-Earners eBook

Helen Stuart Campbell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 208 pages of information about Women Wage-Earners.

Women Wage-Earners eBook

Helen Stuart Campbell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 208 pages of information about Women Wage-Earners.

Authorities consulted, 291.

Bakeries, girls in, 218.

Baltimore, Md., weekly wage in, 139.

Beating, 52.

Beaulieu, Paul Leroy, 165, 167, 251.

Belgium, inquiry commission, 174;
  hours of labor in, 186.

Berlin Labor Conference, 11.

Betton, Frank, investigation of conditions in Kansas, 123.

Bibliography, 294.

Bishop, Commissioner, 221.

“Bitter Cry of Outcast London,” 9, 136.

Blackwell, Dr. Emily, on restraints on women workers, 97.

Book-binding, women and children employed in, 108.

Boston, weekly wage in, 139;
  establishment of labor bureau in, 111;
  report on working-girls of, 114;
  women employed in, 116.

Brain, relative sizes and weights of man’s and woman’s, 27.

Brassey, Lord, 176.

Broadcloth, weaving of, by women, 73.

Brooklyn, N.Y., weekly wage in, 139.

Buecher, Dr. Carl, 43.

Buffalo, N.Y., weekly wage in, 139.

California, average wage in, 141;
  women workers in, 110;
  first labor-bureau report, 121.

Calkins, Mary W., on profit-sharing, 267.

Capital has no complaint, 7, 11.

Capitalist, and landlord absorb lion’s share, 7;
  investment of skill and risk, 12.

Carpet-weaving, women employed in, 108.

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.

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