Women in industry : a study in American economic history / by Edith Abbott, Ph.D. of Hull-House, Chicago, associate director in the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy ; with an introductory note by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, J.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Chicago, and director of the department of social investigation in the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy.
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New York ; London :
D. Appleton and Company,
1910.
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Table of Contents:
- Introductory
- The colonial period
- The period of transition
- The establishment of the factory system
- The early field of employment
- The cotton industry
- Early mill operatives: condition of life and work
- The manufacture of boots and shoes
- Cigarmaking
- The clothing industry
- Printing
- The problem of women's wages
- Public opinion and the working woman.