returns received from manufacturers and employers in New York.]
---- Committee of the Assembly. Report and testimony taken before the
special committee of Assembly appointed to investigate conditions of
female labor in the city of New York. Albany, 1896.
OLIVER, THOMAS. (Editor). Dangerous trades; historical, social and
legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health. N. Y.:
Dutton. 1902.
[Many of the trades considered include women workers.]
ORD, HARRISON. The law relating to factories, work rooms and shops in
Victoria. Melbourne: R. S. Brain. 1900.
OSGOOD, IRENE. Review of labor legislation of 1909. Madison: Am. assoc.
for labor legislation. 1909.
---- (same). Women workers in Milwaukee tanneries. Madison: Wisconsin
bureau of labor. 1908.
REDGRAVE, ALEXANDER. (Editor). Factory acts; including the act of 1895,
ed. 6. London: Shaw. 1895.
RICHARDSON, A. S. The girl who earns her own living. N. Y.: Dodge. 1909.
[Describes different trades and professions for girls: stenography,
salesmanship, trained and semi-trained nursing, dressmaking, library
work, millinery, telephone operating, government work, manicuring,
hairdressing, factory work, proof reading, etc. One chapter considers
fully expenses of self-supporting girls in big cities.]
RICHARDSON, DOROTHY. The long day. N. Y.: Century. 1907.
[The experience of a woman in various occupations and her difficulties
in earning a living.]
ROE, E. M. Factory and workshop acts explained and simplified; with
summaries of the workmen’s compensation act, 1897, and the truck act,
1896. London: Simpkin. 1897.
[Small hand-book “untechnical guide,” with marginal notes and full
index.]
Scottish council for women’s trades. Women’s work in laundries; report
of an inquiry conducted by M. H. Irwin. Glasgow: 1904.
---- (same). Women’s work in tailoring and dressmaking; report of an
inquiry conducted by M. H. Irwin. Glasgow. 1900.
SMART, WILLIAM. Women’s wages. Glasgow: James Maclehose. 1892.
[A consideration of the causes of the difference between wages of men
and women; advises organization for protection against low wages.]
STIMSON, F. J. Handbook of the labor laws of the United States. N. Y.:
Scribner. 1896.
SWETT, MAUD. Woman’s work; summary of laws in force 1909. N. Y.: Am.
assoc. for labor legislation. 1909.
TAYLOR, R. W. COOKE. Factory system and factory acts. N. Y.: Scribner.
1894. (Soc. quest. of to-day.)
[A summary account of the acts and the factory system from 1802 to
1891.]
Trades for London girls. N. Y. Longmans, Green. 1909. [Describes trades
and how to enter them.]
TUCKWELL, GERTRUDE, and others. Women in industry from seven points of
view. London: Duckworth. 1908.
[Contents: Regulation of women’s work, by G. M. Tuckwell; Minimum
wage, Constance Smith; Trade unionism, M. R. Macarthur; Infant
mortality. May Tenant; Child employment and juvenile delinquency,
Nettie Adler; Factory and workshop laws, G. M. Anderson; Legislative
proposals, Clementina Black.]
United States. 61st Congress, 2d session. Senate document 380.
Investigation of telephone companies. Washington. 1910.
---- (same). Census department. Statistics of women at work.
Washington. 1900.
---- (same). Commissioner of labor. Labor laws in the various states,
territories and District of Columbia; 2d special report, ed. 2.
Washington. 1896.
---- (same). Working women in large cities; 4th annual report. 1888.
Washington.
[The report includes 343 industries and relates to 22 representative
cities in the United States; largely made up of statistical tables
giving age, nationality, earnings and expenses.]
VAN VORST, BESSIE and MARIE. The woman who toils. N. Y.: Doubleday,
Page. 1903.
[Popular account of the authors’ experiences as working women in the
various industries.]
VYNNE, NORA, & BLACKBURN, HELEN. Women under the factory acts. London:
Williams & Norgate. 1903.
[English factory acts stated and explained with reference to both the
employers’ and the employes’ point of view.]
WEBB, BEATRICE. (Editor). The case for the factory acts. London:
Richards. 1901.
[Papers by various authors; deals with factory legislation in England
and the colonies.]
---- (same). Women and the factory acts. London: Fabian society.
(Fabian Tract.)
WEBB, BEATRICE & SIDNEY. Problems of modern industry. N. Y.: Longmans,
Green. 1902.
[Diary of an investigator; women’s wages, women and the factory acts,
regulation of hours of labor, the sweating system.]
WILLETS, GILSON. Workers of the nation. N. Y.: Dodd, Mead. 1903.
WILLET, M. H. Employment of women in the clothing trade. N. Y.:
Columbia university. 1902.
WILSON, MONA. Our industrial laws. Working women in the factories,
workshops, shops and laundries and how to help them. London: Duckworth.
1899.
Women’s industrial council. Publications. London. Annual reports,
1892-date. Pamphlets: The case for and against a legal minimum wage for
sweated workers, 1909; Home industries of women in London, report of
an inquiry by the investigation committee, 1908; Labour laws for women
in Australia and New Zealand, 1906; in France, 1907; in Germany, 1907;
in Italy, 1908; in the United Kingdom, 1909; in the United States,
1907; Report of the national conference on the unemployment of women
dependent on their own earnings, held Oct. 15, 1907; Women’s wages in
England in the nineteenth century, 1906; Working women and the poor
law, 1909.
Women’s trade union league (National). Convention handbook 1909.
Chicago: National women’s trade union league. 1909.
[Brief description of 32 trades in which women work.]
---- (same). Proceedings, second biennial convention. Chicago: National
women’s trade union league. 1909.
---- (Boston). History of trade unionism among women in Boston. Boston:
Women’s trade union league. 1906.
[Deals with unions in the following trades: printing, bookbinding,
laundry, cigar, tobacco stripping, garment, music and telegraphy.]
---- (Chicago). Leaflets. A series for trade union propaganda.
---- (N. Y.) Report of interstate conference 1908. N. Y.: 1908.
[Report on organization in 43 women’s unions.]
The annual reports of the state bureaus of labor, and state factory
inspection departments; the bulletins of the U. S. dept. of labor; the
economic journals and monthly periodicals contain some of the most
important contributions to the literature of women in industry.
FOOTNOTES:
[74] This list makes no attempt at completeness, the aim being to
include only the most useful works in the field covered not included in
the indices of periodicals.
Transcriber’s Notes
Minor errors in punctuation have been corrected.
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Page 82: “duties and opportunites” changed to “duties and opportunities”
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Association”
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hospitals”
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