Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future

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Helen Campbell. Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future

Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

BY RICHARD T. ELY,

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS;

THEIR PAST, THEIR PRESENT, AND THEIR FUTURE

INTRODUCTION

I

A LOOK BACKWARD

FOOTNOTES:

II

EMPLOYMENTS FOR WOMEN DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FACTORY

FOOTNOTES:

III

EARLY ASPECTS OF FACTORY LABOR FOR WOMEN

FOOTNOTE:

IV

RISE AND GROWTH OF TRADES UP TO THE PRESENT TIME

FOOTNOTES:

V

LABOR BUREAUS AND THEIR WORK IN RELATION TO WOMEN

FOOTNOTES:

VI

PRESENT WAGE-RATES IN THE UNITED STATES

RECAPITULATION

AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS, BY CITIES

AVERAGE WAGE PER STATE

FOOTNOTES:

VII

GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR ENGLISH WORKERS

FOOTNOTES:

VIII

GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR CONTINENTAL WORKERS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER IX

GENERAL CONDITIONS AMONG WAGE-EARNING WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES

FOOTNOTES:

X

GENERAL CONDITIONS IN THE WESTERN STATES

XI

SPECIFIC EVILS AND ABUSES IN FACTORY LIFE AND IN GENERAL TRADES

FOOTNOTES:

XII

REMEDIES AND SUGGESTIONS

FOOTNOTES:

APPENDIX

FACTORY INSPECTION LAW

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED IN PREPARING THIS BOOK

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WOMAN'S LABOR AND OF THE WOMAN QUESTION

GERMANY

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FRENCH LITERATURE ON THE WOMAN QUESTION AND THAT OF WOMAN'S LABOR

ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Helen Campbell

Published by Good Press, 2019

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In the shadows of that far remote infancy of the world where from cave-dweller and mere predatory animal man by slow degrees moved toward a higher development, the story of woman goes side by side with his. For neither is there record beyond the scattered implements of the stone age and the rude drawings of the cave-dwellers, from which one may see that warfare was the chief life of both. The subjugation of the weaker by the stronger is the story of all time; the "survival of the fittest," the modern summary of that struggle.

Naturally, slavery was the first result, and servitude for one side the outcome of all struggle. Physical facts worked with man's will in the matter, and early rendered woman subordinate physically and dependent economically. The origin of this dependence is given with admirable force and fulness by Professor Lester F. Ward in his "Dynamic Sociology":[1]—

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