On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    woman's supervision of women's industry....

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Branche Zeal The Ploymen Of Stock S Thos...

    Tlie principal employment in Ireland for young * women forty years domestic ago and was agricultural the spinning occupation of flax and the wool wheel . stopped In the intervals a gap _> and of

    helped the resources of the cottier and small farmer . The extension of factories and the reduction in the value of home-spun yarn

    number by the increasing of these sp development insters into of " operatives machinery , " , transformed and the emi first gration sufferers a large disposed of vast lus of those who are always

    in times a of transition surp . There is not much to complain of in the position physical of others condition whose of lot factory it is to women earn their , if bread compared in , " the with sweat the

    of their brow . " Acts of Parliament provide for the cleansing , ventilating , and safety of the building , regulate the and hours the of labour ortion ,

    of the time age which at which shall children be _siDent may at commence schoolthe work rate , of wages prop is higher - than be obtained in most of ; the petty trades ; but there

    can now remains yet something needed for the sustenance of that life which is more than the meat . of of

    whom Passing a much over smaller the children proportion of eig is ht emp to loyed thirteen here years than in age other ,

    countriesthe life of a woman in a factory may be briefly described , : —At thirteen she is eliible to take full work ,

    commencing at six in the morning , and g continuing , with intervals for mealsuntil six in the evening ; her day is spent under the control

    of a foreman , in constant contact with men , ( not of itself objectiontending able , if her under work , proper her head supervision confused , ) with for hours the rattle standing of machinery , wearily ,

    her mind deadened , with the monotony of her toil , and , when her task is endedand the living stream of human beings pour through

    the the unwomanl _gatesj the , fli influences ppant remark by which and coarse she is jest surrounded show too have surel told y how on

    her mind and y . _mannersand stamped themselves in unmistakable , characters her countenance

    on . If she have the shelter of the parental roof , be it ever so humblethere is hope that she may be shielded from harm ,

    thoug dent of h , the restr wages aintwhile she receives her i render of her the in commonest some degree household indepen- ' gnorance

    idle work gossi makes p of her the , impatient street , or of has a quiet recourse home to , and worse she stimulants prefers the to

    refresh English her towns wearied of young frame girls . Happ living ily away , the from practice their so parents common is , as in

    yet With ; rare water with - us . Our abundant time is coming small . farms being fast done away ,

    had the cultivation at a low rate power of wheat there becomin seems good , g more reason precarious to believe , and that labour Ireland to be

    large staiids scale on the . The threshold , demand of becoming for textile a fabrics manufacturing being slack country , and on the a

    raw material scarce at the present moment , manufacturing .

    Woman's Supervision Of Women's Industry....

    woman's supervision of women's industry . 115

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/43/