WORKING WITH THE
WORKING WOMAN

By
CORNELIA STRATTON PARKER
Author of “AN AMERICAN IDYLL”

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMXXII

Working With the Working Woman


Copyright, 1922, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

PAGE
[Introduction][vii]
[I.][No. 1075 Packs Chocolates][1]
[II.][286 on Brass][42]
[III.][195 Irons “Family”][75]
[IV.][In a Dress Factory][109]
[V.][No. 536 Tickets Pillow Cases][137]
[VI.][No. 1470, “Pantry Girl”][173]
[Conclusion][226]

INTRODUCTION

The number of books on the labor problem is indeed legion. The tragedy of the literature on any dynamic subject is that most of it is written by people who have time to do little else. Perhaps the best books on many subjects will never be written because those folk, who would be most competent to do the writing, through their vital connection with the problem at hand, never find the spare minutes to put their findings down on paper.