Category: History - Modern (1750+)
General characteristics--Classification--LITERATURE: Fiction--Journalism--TEACHING: Recent changes--Day _v._ Resident Posts--High Schools--Advantages and Disadvantages--Hours and Salaries--Report of Committee of Enquiry--Fees--Elementary Schools--Table of Salaries--London Scho...
General characteristics--Classification--LITERATURE: Fiction--Journalism--TEACHING: Recent changes--Day _v._ Resident Posts--High Schools--Advantages and Disadvantages--Hours an...
2. CHAPTER II.ROUTINE CLERICAL WORK: Type-writing and shorthand--Secretaryships--Clerks and Book-keepers--THE CIVIL SERVICE: The Post Office--Number of women employed--Clerkships--Sorterships...
3. CHAPTER III.No existing combination outside Manual Labour--Beginning of Unionism among women--Emma Paterson--Sketch of her life--She advocates combination--Conference--Women’s Protective an...
8. CHAPTER VIII.FACTORY LEGISLATION INCOMPLETE: Its intention--Sanitary and General Provisions--Causes of Inefficiency--Factory Acts a Compromise--Experts Required--Cubic Space Requirements--RE...
6. CHAPTER VI.Economic Importance of Health--Causes of Ill-health--TEXTILE TRADES--COTTON: Steaming, Sizing, and Fluff--Children: Dr. Tarrop’s Report--LINEN: Dr. Purdon’s Report--Deaths of Be...
4. CHAPTER IV.CENTRES OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY: Lancashire and Yorkshire--Changes in general conditions--Reforms not final--EXTENT OF COMBINATION: Mixed Unions--Equal wages paid to weavers in the...
5. CHAPTER V.Machinery and Women’s Labour--Demand for Cheap Labour--The Sweating System--Basis of Men’s and Women’s Wages--Women’s Wages merely Supplementary--Women’s Wages in various Indust...
7. CHAPTER VII.=The Registrar-General’s Returns.=--It is obvious that the influence of occupation upon the health of married women cannot be adequately considered without some inquiry as to it...