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.

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.

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.

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