Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives

Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918· 2 chapters· 67,364 words

In that antiquity which we who only are the real ancients look back upon as the elder world, counting those days as old which were but the beginning of the time we reckon, there were certain methods with workers that centuries ago ceased to have visible form. The Roman matron,...

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1. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST. END AND BEGINNING 244

In that antiquity which we who only are the real ancients look back upon as the elder world, counting those days as old which were but the beginning of the time we reckon, there...

2. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST.

The long quest is over. It ends; and I turn at last from those women, whose eyes still follow me, filled with mute question of what good may come. Of all ages and nations and cr...