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    THE OPINIONS OF JOHN STUAET MILL. 5

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    ¦ " For the same reason it is found that , cceteris paribus , those trades are artisan genera aid ll in y the the worst work paid The in income which which the wife the and habits children of the of class the

    . demandand down to which they are almost sure to multiply , is in made others up , , in the those same trade income s , Toy must the earnings be obtained of the by whole the famil labor y , of while the

    man amoun alone t to . smaller It is even sum probable than those that of t their he man collective alone in earnings other trades will

    cums the because onl tances y the conse , prudential the quence joint restraint immediatel earnings on of y marriage fel the t two is efore an is going unusuall impr Such , far ovement ther y accordin weak in of when their cir l -

    is domes the tic fact economy in the case after of m hand arriage -loom than weavers b . . In mos , t kinds gy of , weavin are emp g loyed , women at a very earl y a earn ge ; bu as t much the aggregate as of , earnings and children and of the a

    marria family are lower earlier than . It in is almost noticeable any other also kind that there industry are , certain branches ges of hand-loom weaving in which , wa , ges are much above the

    nei common ther women rate in nor the young trade , persons and that are these emp are loyed the . branches These facts in which were

    authenticated by the inquiries of the Hand-loom Weaver ' s Comm be i hence ssion , der whic ived h for made the its exclusion report of in women 1841 . from JVo the argument liberty however of competing , can

    in of the a man labor market d a woman . Even than when would no h more ave been is earned earned by ? b the the labor man y

    who subsis alone are , tence th necessaril e advan is more tag than e dependent to t an he e woman quivalent the influence of . not But dep of in endin their the g case on competition a of children ter for in ,

    y , tion depress of in limiting g the labor their market labor , is in an order important to provide element better in the for ques their

    education . " "We would draw id articular attention to the line which we have started at the first

    meeting mar when ke a d in of it the alics was Soci , because communicated al Science it bears Associ upon by ation Mr a . question Charles at Birming Bray ham of Coventry in 1857 ,

    upon the paper ill influence of the employment of women in ribb , on making , at Coventry

    . lower " It deserves and consi much derati lower on , than why the those wage of men s of . women They are are generall not uni y -

    it versa be one ll , y for so ; very which where m they en an are d equall w , omen y work fitted in t th point e sam of p hysical ployment power , if ,

    they are not always unequally paid . Women in factories , somewhich times earn being as paid much by the men iece ; and brings so they their do in efficiency hand-loom to a sure weaving test . ,

    , p , nation When or in the that the present efficiency can be constitution given is equal is custom , of but society the ; grounded pay , which unequal , either making , the in almost a onl prej y _exjDla udice every , -

    woman , socially speaking , an appendage of some man , enables men

    The Opinions Of John Stuaet Mill. 5

    THE OPINIONS OF JOHN STUAET MILL . 5

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/5/