Women in Modern Industry

_Early Efforts at Organisation._--It is probably not worth while to spend a great deal of time in the endeavour to decide what part women played in the earlier developments of t...

The shock was felt at once by trade and industry. July ended in scenes of widespread trouble and dismay. The Stock Exchange closed, and the August Bank Holiday was prolonged for...

He! an die Arbeit! Alle von hinnen! Hurtig hinab! Aus den neuen Schachten schafft mir das Gold! Euch grüsst die Geissel, grabt ihr nicht rasch! Das keiner mir müssig bürge mir M...

_Changes effected by the Industrial Revolution._--We have seen that the industrial employment of women developed partly out of their miscellaneous activities as members of a fam...

The traces of women in economic and industrial history are unmistakable, but the record of their work is so scattered, casual, and incoherent that it is difficult to derive a co...

Until a few years ago no statistics comprehensive in character relating to women's wages were available. In 1906, however, the Board of Trade took "census" of the wages and hour...

Organisation, early efforts at, _section_, 92 in different trades, 171 of German Unions, 157-60 of women, need for, 107, 255 of women, together with men, 172 of young persons, d...

No very detailed or elaborate statistics will be here employed, the aim of this chapter being merely to draw attention to certain broad facts or relations disclosed by the Censu...

Little attention has been given until quite recent times to the position of the woman worker and the special problems concerning her industrial and commercial employment. The hi...

machine, replacing muscular power and increasing the productivity of industry, does undoubtedly aid the woman in quest of self-dependence. In the era of the great industry she h...

THOROLD, ROGERS. History of Agriculture and Prices, i. pp. 273-274, and iv. 495. Compare Bland, Brown, and Tawney, English Economic History, p. 347, for approximation between me...

The Organisation of Women Workers in Germany. Special Report to the International Women's Trade Union League of America. Submitted by the Women Workers' Secretariat of the Gener...