# Sweated industry and the minimum wage

Author: Black, Clementina, 1853-1922; Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George), 1865-1946 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75467

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## Summary

The sweating evil has long engaged the attention of social and industrial workers in many fields. Some have approached it from the philanthropic point of view, and have sought a remedy in voluntary means such as consumers’ leagues; others have approached it from the point of view of industrial organisation, and have sought to deal with it by the extension of trade unionism and legislative action. So far all efforts alike have been futile. The evil is too wide-spread and too remote in its operations to be touched by charity. It involves a class too forlorn, too isolated, and too impoverished to be reached by trade unionism. The cry of the victims has hitherto been too feeble and hopeless t...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter IV. brings us to the case of workers who are all men, who are](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sweated-industry-and-the-minimum-wage-75467/chapters/8/index.md)