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WOMEN IN MODERN INDUSTRY
“What is woman but an enemy of friendship, an unavoidable punishment, anecessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable affliction, a constantlyflowing source of tears, a wicked work of nature covered with a shiningvarnish?”—Saint Chrysostom.
“And wo in winter tyme with wakying a-nyghtes,
To rise to the ruel to rock the cradel,
Both to kard and to kembe, to clouten and to wasche,
To rubbe and to rely, russhes to pilie
That reuthe is to rede othere in ryme shewe
The wo of these women that wonyeth in Cotes.”[1]
Langland: Piers Ploughman, x. 77.
“Two justices of the peace, the mayor or other head officer of any city(etc.) and two aldermen ... may appoint any such woman as is of the age of12 years and under the age of 40 years and unmarried and forth of service... to be retained or serve by the year, week or day for such wages and insuch reasonable sort as they shall think meet; and if any such woman shallrefuse so to serve, then it shall be lawful for the said justices (etc.)to commit such woman to ward until she shall be bounden toserve.”—Statute of Labourers, 1563.
“Every woman spinner’s wage shall be such as, following her labour dulyand painfully, she may make it account to.”—Justices of Wiltshire:Assessment of Wages, 1604.
“Sometimes one feels that one dare not contemplate too closely the life ofour working women, it is such a grave reproach.”—Miss Anna Tracey,Factory Inspector, 1913.
“The State has trampled on its subjects for ‘ends of State’; it hasneglected them; it is beginning to act consciously for them.... Theprogressive enrichment of human life and the remedy of its ills is not aprivate affair. It is a public charge. Indeed it is the one and noblestfield of corporate action. The perception of that truth gives rise to thenew art of social politics.”—B. Kirkman Gray.
WOMEN IN
MODERN INDUSTRY
BY
B. L. HUTCHINS
AUTHOR OF “CONFLICTING IDEALS” AND (WITH MRS. SPENCER, D.SC.)
“A HISTORY OF FACTORY LEGISLATION”
WITH A CHAPTER CONTRIBUTED BY
J. J. MALLON
LONDON
G. BELL AND SONS, Ltd.
1915