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Women Wage-Earners. Their Past, their Present, and their Future. By Helen Campbell. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.
The writer describes employments in the factory and home, compares the condition of women workers here and abroad, dwells upon the evils and abuses in factory life and in general trades, and points out remedies and gives suggestions. The book is an expansion of a prize monograph for the American Economic Association, for which a reward was given in 1891, expanded to nearly double its original size. An introduction to it is contributed by Prof. Richard T. Ely. Nowhere else could one get so much information on this subject in so small a space as in this book.—The School Journal.
It includes such topics as factory labor, rise and growth of trades, labor bureaus, wage rates, and general conditions for women workers in England, on the Continent, and in the United States.
The importance of this subject with which Mrs. Campbell deals is not easily overestimated. The present age is the era of woman, since whatever affects her receives a consideration never before given. For a long time the agitation in favor of woman was to remove barriers and open the way for her. The way has been opened and woman has entered scores of fields previously closed to her. The questions which now arise are as to her remuneration for her work in these fields, and the influence of women wage-earning on the family, the home, and society. These are questions not yet settled. Mrs. Campbell approaches their discussion in a spirit of fairness, and what she says is suggestive and helpful, if not conclusive. Her volume is a valuable contribution to the literature of social science.—Boston Advertiser.
Such a work could never have been compiled for women except by a woman. It is itself a demonstration of the fact that women can handle the woman question as men alone cannot do, and that women can be raised and elevated from their present depressed condition only by organizations and trades unions of their own. Every woman should read this book carefully. She will gain from its perusal a breadth and depth of knowledge which will be of lasting value to her, and it will show her how great a work exists for women to do, in order to “make the world better.”—Woman’s Journal.
It is a sober statement of facts by a thoughtful woman who has made a life-study of economic questions, both through the medium of books, and by personal investigation into the modern conditions of labor. The book covers the history of the wage question as affecting women, its present status, and its prospect for the future.—Worcester Spy.
Her style is robust, orderly, precise, every page carrying the evidence of trained thought and of careful, conscientious research.—Public Opinion.
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