Author: Virginia Penny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sexual division of labor
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
"The object of this work is to show women where the productive fields of labor are, and to enable every one to find the kind of employment best adapted to her tastes. It embraces the results of over three years' constant labor in perfecting its details. -- Miss Penny."--Title page.
Five Hundred Employments Adapted to Women
Author: Virginia Penny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sexual division of labor
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
"The object of this work is to show women where the productive fields of labor are, and to enable every one to find the kind of employment best adapted to her tastes. It embraces the results of over three years' constant labor in perfecting its details. -- Miss Penny."--Title page.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sexual division of labor
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
"The object of this work is to show women where the productive fields of labor are, and to enable every one to find the kind of employment best adapted to her tastes. It embraces the results of over three years' constant labor in perfecting its details. -- Miss Penny."--Title page.
Five Hundred Employments Adapted to Women
Author: Virginia Penny.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Five Hundred Employments Adapted to Women; with the Average Rate of Pay in Each
Author: Virginia Penny
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230036137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... penman. Some never succeed. In stoning and frosting, girls sit. The finishers are men, and the stooping required sometimes produces consumption. So many gold pen cases are not used now as formerly--probably not more than one tenth as many. Gutta percha has become a substitute. N. employed women seven or eight years ago in polishing, stoning, and pointing pens, and paid $5 a week of ten hours a day. Manufacturers in Williamsburg, Mass., write: " We employ women to make gold pens, pen holders, and jewelry, and pay from $3 to $4 per week--some by the piece and some by the week. It requires from one to three years to learn, according to the part they do. They are paid small wages while learning. We wish honesty and ingenuity in our workers. The business is permanent. Work is given at all seasons of the year. The hands work eleven and a quarter hours per day. We employ from ten to twelve women, because they can do the work equally as well as men, at about one third the price. Half are Americans. N 0 other parts of the occupation are suitable for women than those in which we employ them. Help once settled in the country, if married, are likely to be permanent-in cities, vice versa, changing about. Our workmen have a fine reading room. Board, $1.50 for women, $2.50 for men." 248. watches. A Watch is said to consist of 992 pieces. We have seen it stated that two hundred persons are employed in the entire process of making a watch, and that, with the exception of the watch finishers (who put the parts together), not one of the workmen could perform any but his own specific part. In Switzerland, families, for generation after generation, devote themselves to making particular parts of watches. Women have proved their ability to execute...
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230036137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... penman. Some never succeed. In stoning and frosting, girls sit. The finishers are men, and the stooping required sometimes produces consumption. So many gold pen cases are not used now as formerly--probably not more than one tenth as many. Gutta percha has become a substitute. N. employed women seven or eight years ago in polishing, stoning, and pointing pens, and paid $5 a week of ten hours a day. Manufacturers in Williamsburg, Mass., write: " We employ women to make gold pens, pen holders, and jewelry, and pay from $3 to $4 per week--some by the piece and some by the week. It requires from one to three years to learn, according to the part they do. They are paid small wages while learning. We wish honesty and ingenuity in our workers. The business is permanent. Work is given at all seasons of the year. The hands work eleven and a quarter hours per day. We employ from ten to twelve women, because they can do the work equally as well as men, at about one third the price. Half are Americans. N 0 other parts of the occupation are suitable for women than those in which we employ them. Help once settled in the country, if married, are likely to be permanent-in cities, vice versa, changing about. Our workmen have a fine reading room. Board, $1.50 for women, $2.50 for men." 248. watches. A Watch is said to consist of 992 pieces. We have seen it stated that two hundred persons are employed in the entire process of making a watch, and that, with the exception of the watch finishers (who put the parts together), not one of the workmen could perform any but his own specific part. In Switzerland, families, for generation after generation, devote themselves to making particular parts of watches. Women have proved their ability to execute...
The Employments of Women
Author: Virginia Penny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Student's Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Lady's Friend
Author: Sarah (Webb) Peterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Beyond Equality
Author: David Montgomery
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252008696
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
"For anyone who believes that there was no important labor movement before Roosevelt, or before Gompers, or before the Knights of Labor, this well-documented work should prove a shocker. And for those who look to the past for enlightenment to guide us through our troubled tomorrows, this book is a reservoir of historic information and insights." -- New Leader "Beyond Equality is a masterpiece. . . . A book of bold and brilliant originality, it is now shaping the perspective of a new generation of graduate students." -- David Brion Davis, author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252008696
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
"For anyone who believes that there was no important labor movement before Roosevelt, or before Gompers, or before the Knights of Labor, this well-documented work should prove a shocker. And for those who look to the past for enlightenment to guide us through our troubled tomorrows, this book is a reservoir of historic information and insights." -- New Leader "Beyond Equality is a masterpiece. . . . A book of bold and brilliant originality, it is now shaping the perspective of a new generation of graduate students." -- David Brion Davis, author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
History of Labour in the United States
Author: John Rogers Commons
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781893122758
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781893122758
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Global Perspectives on Changing Secondhand Economies
Author: Karen Tranberg Hansen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000545024
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Providing interdisciplinary and global perspectives, this book examines historical and contemporary changes in secondhand economies, including the emergence and specialization of secondhand venues, the materials involved, as well as the cultural significance of secondhand things and the professions associated with them. The objects in focus range from used clothing, scrap and waste materials, to antiquities and used cars, thrift stores and circular economies. Growing concerns with sustainability in the West have helped bring about the ‘rediscovery’ of practices of clothing re-use, re-purposing and re-cycling at the same time as major high-street retailers are establishing programs to return used clothing to their stores for re-sale or recycling. As the contributions to this edited volume demonstrate, recent concerns with the fast pace and adverse effects of global commodity flows have increased the scholarly attention to secondhand economies, both in terms of their history and their significance for livelihoods and sustainability. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Business History.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000545024
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Providing interdisciplinary and global perspectives, this book examines historical and contemporary changes in secondhand economies, including the emergence and specialization of secondhand venues, the materials involved, as well as the cultural significance of secondhand things and the professions associated with them. The objects in focus range from used clothing, scrap and waste materials, to antiquities and used cars, thrift stores and circular economies. Growing concerns with sustainability in the West have helped bring about the ‘rediscovery’ of practices of clothing re-use, re-purposing and re-cycling at the same time as major high-street retailers are establishing programs to return used clothing to their stores for re-sale or recycling. As the contributions to this edited volume demonstrate, recent concerns with the fast pace and adverse effects of global commodity flows have increased the scholarly attention to secondhand economies, both in terms of their history and their significance for livelihoods and sustainability. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Business History.
Philadelphia on Stone
Author: Erika Piola
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105252X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"A collection of essays examining the history of nineteenth-century commercial lithography in Philadelphia. Analyzes the social, economic, and technological changes in the local trade from 1828 to 1878"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105252X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"A collection of essays examining the history of nineteenth-century commercial lithography in Philadelphia. Analyzes the social, economic, and technological changes in the local trade from 1828 to 1878"--Provided by publisher.