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“The book is based on pure fiction, so far as America is concerned. In the first place, since the constitution does not provide for conferring the freedom of the nation on foreigners, there are no ‘Americans by adoption.’ Mr Husband’s portraiture is rather in keeping with the ideas propounded by Mr Neilson in the preface; his heroes are made to look like ‘Efficiency Edgar.’” B. L.
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HUTCHINSON, EMILIE JOSEPHINE. Women’s wages. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics, and public law) pa *$1.50 Longmans 331.4
19–18237
“This book, submitted as a doctor’s thesis to Columbia university, is a painstaking, clearly written analysis of the wages of women and the factors affecting them. Nearly half the space is given to a discussion of minimum-wage legislation and its possibilities. Trade unionism and vocational training are included with minimum-wage laws as the chief methods of raising the present low standards. The facts presented are drawn almost exclusively from reports prepared before the war, and although occasional references are made to the work of women during the war, and their position after it, the discussion seems not to have been influenced by the changes in the aspects of labor problems since 1914.”—Am J Soc
“The postponement of the publication of this useful laboriously prepared study makes the data seem curiously obsolete.” Edith Abbott
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“It is unfortunate that certain old opinions, which have never had satisfactory statistical proof, such as ‘from five to seven years is the average length of the girl’s wage-earning life,’ are repeated without supporting evidence. As a history of data and opinions before the war the book is useful, and with the persistence of many of the same tendencies in women’s work, it will have continued value.” Mary Van Kleeck