Labor Laws for Women in Industry in Indiana: Report of a Survey by the Woman in Industry Service, United States Department of Labor ; as Submitted to the Governor of Indiana, Temas2-20U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - 29 páginas |
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... girls were gainfully employed . In 1910 the number had in- creased to 155,731 . This increase was more rapid than the increase in the total population of women . In 1880 , 7.2 of every 100 women and girls 10 years of age and over were ...
... girls were gainfully employed . In 1910 the number had in- creased to 155,731 . This increase was more rapid than the increase in the total population of women . In 1880 , 7.2 of every 100 women and girls 10 years of age and over were ...
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... girls under 18 was exceedingly difficult to enforce and was very generally disregarded throughout the State . In the establishments visited the employers could give no information as to the number of women under the age of 18 who were ...
... girls under 18 was exceedingly difficult to enforce and was very generally disregarded throughout the State . In the establishments visited the employers could give no information as to the number of women under the age of 18 who were ...
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... girls were employed who were under 18. In another factory having con- tracts for munitions the girls worked during several months for 11 hours and 15 minutes a day , 64 hours a week . On leaving the factory they had to travel to town on ...
... girls were employed who were under 18. In another factory having con- tracts for munitions the girls worked during several months for 11 hours and 15 minutes a day , 64 hours a week . On leaving the factory they had to travel to town on ...
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... girl on hand work turned out 59.2 pieces in 41.6 hours in a week , and only 52.3 pieces in 46.9 hours . The manager of another factory said , " If you have overtime you pay for it . When girls work three nights a week until 9 o'clock ...
... girl on hand work turned out 59.2 pieces in 41.6 hours in a week , and only 52.3 pieces in 46.9 hours . The manager of another factory said , " If you have overtime you pay for it . When girls work three nights a week until 9 o'clock ...
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... Girls put their hats on shelves above their cloaks . All hooks on racks were numbered and each girl given her number . As marked a difference in service facilities is often seen inside of one factory . In one department the women may ...
... Girls put their hats on shelves above their cloaks . All hooks on racks were numbered and each girl given her number . As marked a difference in service facilities is often seen inside of one factory . In one department the women may ...
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Página 4 - 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 becomes an object of public interest and care in order to preserve the strength and vigor of the race.
Página 5 - ... 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 40 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be established in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women's Bureau.
Página 11 - No person or corporation, or officer or agent thereof, shall employ any woman or female young person in any capacity for the purpose of manufacturing, between the hours of ten o'clock at night and six o'clock in the morning.
Página 40 - It shall be the duty of said bureau to formulate standards and policies which shall promote the welfare of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Página 30 - Wages should be established on the basis of occupation and not on the basis of sex. The minimum wage rate should cover the cost of living for dependents and not merely for the individual.
Página 37 - No male child under the age of eighteen years, nor any female, shall be employed in any factory in this state in operating or using any emery, tripoli, rouge, corundum, stone, carborundum or any abrasive, or emery polishing or buffing wheel, where articles of the baser metals or of iridium are manufactured.
Página 37 - ... felt, canvas, linen, paper, cotton, or wheels or belts rolled or coated with emery or corundum or cotton wheels used as buffs, shall provide the same with blowers...
Página 32 - The said bureau shall have authority to investigate and report to the said department upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of women in industry. The director of said bureau may from time to time publish the results of these investigations in such a manner and to such extent as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe.
Página 5 - It is manifestly impossible to say that the mere fact that the statute of California provides for an eight-hour day, or a maximum of forty-eight hours a week, instead of ten hours a day or fifty-four hours a week, takes the case out of the domain of legislative discretion. This is not to imply that a limitation of the hours of labor of women might not be pushed to a wholly indefensible extreme, but there is no ground for the conclusion here that the limit of the reasonable exertion of protective...