Report of the Michigan State Commission of Inquiry Into Wages and the Conditions of Labor for Women and the Advisability of Establishing a Minimum WageWynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Company, state printers, 1915 - 496 páginas |
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... toilet should be so constructed as to make it impossible to overflow or stop up . It should be clean , neat , sweet smelling and cheerful . To have toilets for men and women separated only by a board partition reaching neither to the ...
... toilet should be so constructed as to make it impossible to overflow or stop up . It should be clean , neat , sweet smelling and cheerful . To have toilets for men and women separated only by a board partition reaching neither to the ...
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... toilet should be so constructed as to make it impossible to overflow or stop up. It should be clean, neat, sweet smelling and cheerful. To have toilets for men and women separated only by a board partition reaching neither to the floor ...
... toilet should be so constructed as to make it impossible to overflow or stop up. It should be clean, neat, sweet smelling and cheerful. To have toilets for men and women separated only by a board partition reaching neither to the floor ...
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... toilet facilities . strangers . Comfortably. Occupation . Per cent . Helped by relatives . Per cent . Paying board . Per cent . Adrift . Assisting to support others . Per cent . Per cent . Helped by relatives . Per cent . ( ' ands 2,14 ...
... toilet facilities . strangers . Comfortably. Occupation . Per cent . Helped by relatives . Per cent . Paying board . Per cent . Adrift . Assisting to support others . Per cent . Per cent . Helped by relatives . Per cent . ( ' ands 2,14 ...
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... toilet conditions where they roomed; 80.5 per cent said they were good; 11.1 ]>er cent said "fair," and 2.4 per cent thought they were bad. Some 508 shared their room with others — at limes two or more shared the same bed. One girl, a ...
... toilet conditions where they roomed; 80.5 per cent said they were good; 11.1 ]>er cent said "fair," and 2.4 per cent thought they were bad. Some 508 shared their room with others — at limes two or more shared the same bed. One girl, a ...
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... toilet conditions where they roomed ; 86.5 per cent said they were good ; 11.1 per cent said " fair , " and 2.4 per cent thought they were bad . Some 598 shared their room with others — at times two or more shared the same bed . One ...
... toilet conditions where they roomed ; 86.5 per cent said they were good ; 11.1 per cent said " fair , " and 2.4 per cent thought they were bad . Some 598 shared their room with others — at times two or more shared the same bed . One ...
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Página 109 - That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious. This is especially true when the burdens of motherhood are upon her. Even when they are not, by abundant testimony of the medical fraternity continuance for a long time on her feet at work, repeating this from day to day, tends to injurious effects upon the body, and, as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well-being of woman...
Página 110 - Differentiated by these matters from the other sex, she is properly placed in a class by herself, and legislation designed for her protection may be sustained, even when like legislation is not necessary for men and could not be sustained.
Página 110 - ... her physical structure and a proper discharge of her maternal functions — having in view not merely her own health, but the well-being of the race — justify legislation to protect her from the greed as well as the passion of man.
Página 107 - It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.
Página 109 - Still again, history discloses the fact that woman has always been dependent upon man. He established his control at the outset by superior physical strength, and this control in various forms, with diminishing intensity, has continued to 'the present.
Página 110 - ... the amount of physical strength, in the capacity for long-continued labor, particularly when done standing, the influence of vigorous health upon the future well-being of the race, the self-reliance which enables one to assert full rights, and in the capacity to maintain the struggle for subsistence. This difference justifies a difference in legislation and upholds that which is designed to compensate for some of the burdens which rest upon her.
Página 104 - The possibility that the belief may be wrong, and that science may yet show it to be wrong, is not conclusive, for the Legislature has the right to pass laws which, according to the common belief of the people, are adapted to prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
Página 112 - If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted to protect the public health, the public morals, or the public safety, has no real or substantial relation...
Página 107 - Police power is the name given to that inherent sovereignty which it is the right and duty of the government or its agents to exercise whenever public policy, in a broad sense, demands, for the benefit of society at large, regulations to guard its morals, safety, health, order, or to insure in any respect such economic conditions as an advancing civilization of a highly complex character requires.
Página 17 - Each wage board shall take into consideration the needs of the employees, the financial condition of the occupation and the probable effect thereon of any increase in the minimum wages paid, and shall endeavor to determine the minimum wage, whether by time rate or piece rate, suitable for a female employee of ordinary ability in the occupation in question...