Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066195908

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       MAKING BOTH ENDS MEET

       CHAPTER I

       THE INCOME AND OUTLAY OF SOME NEW YORK SALESWOMEN

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       CHAPTER II

       THE SHIRT-WAIST MAKERS' STRIKE

       I

       II

       III

       CHAPTER III

       THE INCOME AND OUTLAY OF SOME NEW YORK FACTORY WORKERS

       [ Unskilled and Seasonal Factory Work ]

       I

       II

       CHAPTER IV

       THE INCOME AND OUTLAY OF SOME NEW YORK FACTORY-WORKERS

       [ Monotony and Fatigue in Speeding ]

       CHAPTER V

       THE CLOAK MAKERS' STRIKE AND THE PREFERENTIAL UNION SHOP

       CHAPTER VI

       WOMEN LAUNDRY WORKERS IN NEW YORK

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       CHAPTER VII

       SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AS APPLIED TO WOMEN'S WORK

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       The Macmillan Company

       American Social Progress Series

       The Macmillan Company

       By Scott Nearing, Ph.D.

       The Macmillan Company

       By Mary W. Brown

       The Macmillan Company

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PREFACE

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      This book is composed of the economic records of self-supporting women living away from home in New York. Their chronicles were given to the National Consumers' League simply as a testimony to truth; and it is simply as a testimony to truth that these narratives are reprinted here.

      The League's inquiry was initiated because, three years ago in the study of the establishment of a minimum wage, only very little information was obtainable as to the relation between the income and the outlay of self-supporting women workers. The inquiry was conducted for a year and a half by Mrs. Sue Ainslie Clark, who obtained the workers' budgets as they were available from young women interviewed in their rooms, boarding places, and hotels, and at night schools and clubs. After Mrs. Clark had collected and written these accounts, I supplemented them further