Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future. Helen Campbell
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Helen Campbell
Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066148522
Table of Contents
THEIR PAST, THEIR PRESENT, AND THEIR FUTURE.
EMPLOYMENTS FOR WOMEN DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FACTORY.
EARLY ASPECTS OF FACTORY LABOR FOR WOMEN.
RISE AND GROWTH OF TRADES UP TO THE PRESENT TIME.
LABOR BUREAUS AND THEIR WORK IN RELATION TO WOMEN.
PRESENT WAGE-RATES IN THE UNITED STATES.
AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS, BY CITIES.
GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR ENGLISH WORKERS.
GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR CONTINENTAL WORKERS.
GENERAL CONDITIONS AMONG WAGE-EARNING WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES.
GENERAL CONDITIONS IN THE WESTERN STATES.
SPECIFIC EVILS AND ABUSES IN FACTORY LIFE AND IN GENERAL TRADES.
AUTHORITIES CONSULTED IN PREPARING THIS BOOK.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WOMAN'S LABOR AND OF THE WOMAN QUESTION.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FRENCH LITERATURE ON THE WOMAN QUESTION AND THAT OF WOMAN'S LABOR.
INTRODUCTION
BY RICHARD T. ELY,
DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON.
The importance of the subject with which the present work deals cannot well be over-estimated. Our age may properly be called the Era of Woman, because everything which affects her receives consideration quite unknown in past centuries. This is well. The motive is twofold: First, woman is valued as never before; and, second, it is perceived that the welfare of the other half of the human race depends more largely upon the position enjoyed by woman than was previously understood.
The earlier agitation for an enlarged sphere and greater rights for woman was to a considerable extent merely negative. The aim was to remove barriers and to open the way. It is characteristic of the earlier days of agitation for the removal of wrongs affecting any class, that the questions involved appear to be simple, and easily repeated formulas ample to secure desired rights. Further agitation, however, and more mature reflection always show that what looks like a simple social problem is a complex one.
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