Women in the Factory
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About this eBook
- Author
- Anderson, Adelaide Mary, 1863-1936
- Title
- Women in the factory : an administrative adventure, 1893 to 1921
- Original Publication
- New York: E. P. Dutton and company, 1922.
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
- Subject
- Industrial hygiene -- Great Britain
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 78951
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78951
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.WOMEN IN THE FACTORY AN ADMINISTRATIVE ADVENTURE, 1893 TO 1921
- 2.FOREWORD
- 3.AUTHOR’S PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: HOW WOMEN INSPECTORS CAME, AND WHAT THEY CAME TO DO
- 6.CHAPTER II THE WOMEN WORKERS AND THEIR APPEAL; EXCESSIVE HOURS, INSANITATION, AND OTHER UNCIVILISED CONDITIONS
- 7.CHAPTER III WOMEN’S WAGES AND THE TRUCK ACTS; THE PIECEWORKER AND HER PAY
- 8.CHAPTER IV DANGEROUS AND INJURIOUS PROCESSES; ACCIDENTS AND SAFETY
- 9.CHAPTER V EMPLOYMENT OF MOTHERS; YOUNG WORKERS; CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
- 10.CHAPTER VI THE LIFE OF THE INSPECTOR AND ITS INFLUENCE ON LEGISLATION; EXPERIENCES IN COURTS
- 11.CHAPTER VII THE WAR AND WOMEN SUBSTITUTES; NEW LIGHT ON HOURS, LABOUR-SAVING, FATIGUE, FOOD, AND EFFICIENCY
- 12.CHAPTER VIII FACTORY WELFARE AND ITS RECOGNITION BY PARLIAMENT; WORKS’ COMMITTEES AND WELFARE MANAGEMENT
- 13.APPENDIX I DANGEROUS AND UNHEALTHY INDUSTRIES
- 14.APPENDIX II TABLE OF REPORTED CASES OF INDUSTRIAL POISONING AND ANTHRAX (SECTION 73 OF THE FACTORY ACT, 1901).
- 15.INDEX
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