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Excerpt from The Wage-Earning Woman and the State: A Reply to Miss. Minnie BronsonThis reply to Miss Bronson's pamphlet has been written by Miss S. P. Breckinridge and Miss Edith Abbott, who are both well qualified, not only by rather unusual academic training, but also by practical experience, to speak authoritatively on questions relating to wage earning women.Miss Breckinridge is a graduate of Wellesley College, and later received the degre...

Excerpt from The Wage-Earning Woman and the State: A Reply to Miss. Minnie BronsonThis reply to Miss Bronson's pamphlet has been written by Miss S. P. Breckinridge and Miss Edith Abbott, who are both well qualified, not only by rather unusual academic training, but also by practical experience, to speak authoritatively on questions relating to wage earning women.Miss Breckinridge is a graduate of Wellesley College, and later received the degre...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Democracy and Social Progress in EnglandThe fact that relief under the poor laws is needed, not only by those described by Dr. Zahn as the uninsured lower classes, but also by those who actually are receiving insurance benefits, cannot be attributed to the fact that poor relief carries with it less disgrace in Germany than elsewhere. Dr. Zahn explained in his Washington paper that the German poor laws provided that relief should b...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic HistoryI owe to two other friends, to Miss Clara E. Collet, M, Honorary Fellow of University College, Lon don, and senior investigator of women 's industries in 'he Board of Trade (labour Department), and to Dr. Frances Gardiner Davenport of the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution of Washington. To Miss Collet I am indebted, not for direct help in connection...

Excerpt from Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic HistoryI owe to two other friends, to Miss Clara E. Collet, M, Honorary Fellow of University College, Lon don, and senior investigator of women 's industries in 'he Board of Trade (labour Department), and to Dr. Frances Gardiner Davenport of the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution of Washington. To Miss Collet I am indebted, not for direct help in connection...

Excerpt from The One Hundred and One County Jails of Illinois and Why They Ought to Be AbolishedThe Adams County Jail, inspected July 28, 1915. Is in the basement of the courthouse. The main jail room is 44 by 68 feet in dimensions. It is lighted by windows at the south and north ends. The two cell blocks con tain fourteen cells each. The cells of each block are placed back to back. No air can circulate through them as the solid stone walls sh...

Excerpt from The One Hundred and One County Jails of Illinois and Why They Ought to Be AbolishedThe Adams County Jail, inspected July 28, 1915. Is in the basement of the courthouse. The main jail room is 44 by 68 feet in dimensions. It is lighted by windows at the south and north ends. The two cell blocks con tain fourteen cells each. The cells of each block are placed back to back. No air can circulate through them as the solid stone walls sh...

Excerpt from The Administration of the Aid-to-Mothers Law in IllinoisThis act enabled the court to deal with its wards in a way that had been impossible up to that time. Under the juvenile-court law, which had been passed 12 years earlier, 2 the courts had the authority to com. Mit children to institutions to be supported at public expense. The juvenile-court law provided for the care of two groups of children.About the PublisherForgotten Book...

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Excerpt from Truancy and Non-Attendance in the Chicago Schools: A Study of the Social Aspects of the Compulsory Education and Child Labor Legislation of Illinois This study of the truant and non-attending school children of Chicago was begun as a continuation of an inquiry into the care of the wards of the Juvenile Court of Cook County, which we undertook some years ago in the Department of Social Investigation of the Chicago School of Civics...

Excerpt from Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic History This volume is, therefore, an attempt to carry on the investigation from the point at which it was left four years ago. The continuation of the study was made possible in the first instance through the assist ance of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and to the late Carroll D. Wright, then at the head of the Department of Economics and Sociology, grateful acknowledgmen...

Excerpt from The Administration of the Aid-to-Mothers Law in Illinois Private charitable associations existed, of course, to prevent the breaking up of such families and to mitigate, as it were, the harsh ness of the law. To many people it seemed anomalous that the law should refuse to pay for the support of the children so long as they remained with the mother, who was their natural guardian, when it stood ready to provide for them as soon a...

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Women in Industry is a critical examination of labor history of women in the United States from colonial times to the turn of the 20th century. Since its first publication a century ago, it has received hundreds of citations and had a formative influence in fields as diverse as labor history, gender studies, and economic history methodology. Women in Industry examines working conditions, wages and other forms of compensation across industries ...