Selected Articles on the Employment of WomenEdna Dean Bullock Wilson, 1911 - 147 páginas |
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... evil , and if pos- sible it would be well that it should cease , but according to Taylor " it is not feasible by any isolated statutory order . " However , it is only a matter of time when all the manufac- turing states will protect the ...
... evil , and if pos- sible it would be well that it should cease , but according to Taylor " it is not feasible by any isolated statutory order . " However , it is only a matter of time when all the manufac- turing states will protect the ...
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... evil , and direct- ly affects the larger number . The industries of today differ most markedly from those of the past in the relentless speed which they require . This speed is acquired in various ways : by mechanical devices which ...
... evil , and direct- ly affects the larger number . The industries of today differ most markedly from those of the past in the relentless speed which they require . This speed is acquired in various ways : by mechanical devices which ...
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... evil than the fact that employment in highly specialized factory or mercantile work weakens the taste and capacity for domestic management , where it does not breed a positive dislike for it . Employment in domestic service in good ...
... evil than the fact that employment in highly specialized factory or mercantile work weakens the taste and capacity for domestic management , where it does not breed a positive dislike for it . Employment in domestic service in good ...
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... evil and destructive environ- ment we are playing havoc with our own property . In certain of our great industrial organizations , indeed , the employer is al- ready beginning to recognize that it is bad business to put the employee ...
... evil and destructive environ- ment we are playing havoc with our own property . In certain of our great industrial organizations , indeed , the employer is al- ready beginning to recognize that it is bad business to put the employee ...
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... evil to be cured in as many cases as possible by marriage . " It is a sorry compliment to a man to be taken like a dose of medicine . As a rule , husband and wife should found a home to be sup- ported by the joint labor of both , his ...
... evil to be cured in as many cases as possible by marriage . " It is a sorry compliment to a man to be taken like a dose of medicine . As a rule , husband and wife should found a home to be sup- ported by the joint labor of both , his ...
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Página 137 - 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 138 - ... 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 137 - The general right to make a contract in relation to his business is part of the liberty of the individual protected by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution.
Página 138 - Though limitations upon personal and contractual rights may be removed by legislation, there is that in her disposition and habits of life which will operate against a full assertion of those rights. She will still be where some legislation to protect her seems necessary to secure a real equality of right.
Página 138 - The limitations which this statute places upon her contractual powers, upon her right to agree with her employer as to the time she shall labor, are not Imposed solely for her benefit, but also largely for the benefit of all.
Página 138 - 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 92 - It is a matter of universal knowledge with all reasonably intelligent people of the present age that continuous standing on the feet by women for a great many consecutive hours is deleterious to their health. It must logically follow that that which would deleteriously affect any great number of women who are the mothers of succeeding generations must necessarily affect the public welfare and the public morals.
Página 17 - The state still retains an interest in his welfare, however reckless he may be. The whole is no greater than the sum of all the parts, and when the individual health, safety, and welfare are sacrificed or neglected the state must suffer.
Página 137 - Federal Constitution; yet it is equally well settled that this liberty is not absolute and extending to all contracts, and that a State may, without conflicting with the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment, restrict in many respects the individual's power of contract.
Página 91 - They are unable, by reason of their physical limitations, to endure the same hours of exhaustive labor as may be endured by adult males. Certain kinds of work which may be performed by men without injury to their health would wreck the constitutions and destroy the health of women, and render them incapable of bearing their share of the burdens of the family and the home.