Report Of The Commission To Investigate The Conditions Of Wage Earning Women And Minors PDF Download

Excerpt from Report of the Senate Wage Commission for Women and Children in the State of Missouri: To the Senate of the 48th General Assembly of Missouri The Senate Wage Commission begs leave to submit to your honorable body the following report. An investigation was made into the wages paid, conditions under which girls work, number of years they attended school, length of time they have been employed and whether they were earning enough for self-support in factories, department stores, laundries and all other industries where women are employed. Evidence was submitted willingly by all girl employees and by the employers in all lines of work investigated. The commission is indebted to George B. Mangold, director of the School of Economy of Washington University, who with Miss Anne M. Evans, former special agent of the Federal Labor Bureau, under authority from the commission, made an auxil iary investigation into the wages, cost of living and conditions of labor of women in the manufacturing industries of St. Louis. Miss Mary E. Bulkley also rendered the commission valuable service. Probably women and girls, not including serv ants, are employed in the cities of the state. Of this number probably are earning their own living. Thousands of these girls and women are not earning enough to properly feed and clothe them. Many Showed evidences of tuberculosis and other diseases, due undoubtedly to condi tions under which they are forced to work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.