Category: Gender & Sexuality Studies
A natural monopoly is constituted by the superior strength of man, the occasional exercise of which, as just noticed, entitles him to some superiority of pay for work which at first sight may appear almost identical with that of women. The experience recorded in the following...
As regards i., we have the wage sheets for some 470 separate weeks, in addition to the complete lists of two very small firms for one and four years respectively; ii., the compl...
7. CHAPTER VI.The Commission on Children's Employment in 1866[64] first disclosed the fact that substantial abuses prevailed throughout the printing and kindred trades. Long hours, frequent n...
4. CHAPTER III.The subdivision of labour which has broken up the original printing "profession" into a score or so of different trades, each minutely subdivided in turn, has been the chief cau...
2. CHAPTER I.The trades covered by this enquiry include a great number of processes, some brief account of which is necessary if the succeeding chapters are to be comprehensible. It will, pe...
6. CHAPTER V.At the present moment such training as is given generally begins in the workshops so soon as the girl has left school.[53] Girls are, in the best houses, employed on the recomme...
10. CHAPTER IX.The investigators tried to obtain information bearing upon the interesting and important question of the influence of the married and the unmarried woman worker on industry, on...
5. CHAPTER IV.One of the most important questions relating to women as workers is the exact relationship between their work and that of men, _i.e._, how far they are rivals in competition and...
1. Chapter XIV.), together with custom and what Mill calls "the unintendedA natural monopoly is constituted by the superior strength of man, the occasional exercise of which, as just noticed, entitles him to some superiority of pay for work which at f...
8. CHAPTER VII.There is a general opinion amongst the women workers themselves that the introduction of machinery has ruined these trades for them. But we have found that certain opinions prev...
3. CHAPTER II.Before 1841 the census occupation tables do not state the numbers employed in the detailed trades, and even in that year we find either that no separate return was made for some...
9. CHAPTER VIII.The table of occupations compiled from the census of 1901 for the first time indicates the number of home workers. For these trades the figures for women are as follows:
11. CHAPTER X.We have succeeded in getting the authentic records of wages from about eighteen firms in London, representing every branch of work in connection with printing, binding, and desp...
12. i. To get complete wage sheets for as many weeks as their time and thecourtesy of the manager allowed, making the record as complete as possible for 1899, and extending their researches back as far as the books existed, choosing the wage sheets of...