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.

“Germinal,” 174.

Gilman, N.P., on profit-sharing, 267.

Gloves, home manufacture of, 63.

Godfrey’s Cordial in infant mortality, 147.

Greeley, Horace, 119.

Guilds, 45;
  expulsion of women from, 47.

Habits, personal, as affecting efficiency, 14.

Half-time system for children, 113.

Harkness, Margaret, 154.

Harland, Sarah, on work for uneducated women, 253.

Harrison, Frederick, 17, 18.

Health, in factory employments, 91;
  of working-women in Massachusetts, 113.

Homes, of working-people, 112;
  for girls, 191;
  in cities, 222, 226, 250.

Hosiery and knitting, women employed in, 108.

Hours of labor, in Massachusetts, 117;
  in Michigan, 206;
  in stores, 258.

Huxley, Thomas, description of London parish, 9, 10.

Idaho, working-women in, 110.

Ideals, alteration of, called for, 271.

Illinois, women workers in, 110.

Immobility of labor, 18, 19.

Income, defined, 127;
  average, in Massachusetts, 116.

Indiana, women workers in, 110.

Indianapolis, average wage in, 139.

Individual development, 272.

Industrial, education, 252;
  efficiency, 14.

Industries open to women in the United States, 124.

Infant mortality, 147.

Insanity among workers, 254.

Intellectual degeneracy of factory operatives, 91, 93.

Intelligence, effect on efficiency, 14;
  effect of factory system on, 91.

Intemperance produced by factory system, 91.

Iowa, women workers in, 110;
  labor bureau, 122. 
  “Iphigenia in Tauris,” 31.

Irish, emigration, 84;
  industries, 159.

Iron law of wages, defined and denounced, 15;
  applicable to unskilled labor, 15.

Jevons, W.S., 147.

Justice, education in, 271;
  a soul-growth, 273, 274.

Kansas, women workers in, 110;
  labor bureau, 122;
  average wage in, 89.

Kay, Dr., 89.

Kelley, Florence, 264.

Kettle, Rupert, on arbitration, 268.

Knights of Labor, on women’s work, 270.

Knitting, 74;
  and hosiery trades, women in, 108.

Labor, degradation of, 35;
  unskilled in colonies, 58;
  child, 86;
  effect of out-door, on pregnant mothers, 147;
  unskilled, a cause of low wages, 271;
  bureaus, their work in relation to women, 110
    (see also under each State);
  Father of, 115;
  mobility of, 17;
  Congress in Belgium, 175;
  hours of, in Germany, 185,
    in France, 183,
    in Austria, 185,
    in Belgium, 186,
    in Switzerland, 186.

Laborer does not receive his share, 13.

Lace-making, women employed in, 48, 108;
  in Ireland, 159;
  in Nottingham, 268.

Copyrights
Project Gutenberg
Women Wage-Earners from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.