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    WITH REFERENCE' TO EMPLOYMENT OP WOMEN. ...

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    available for the maintenance of laborers awn on support a su and greater p " ports At therefore numb present both s er e althoug xes of the _, individual thoug wages h the h one cap s than of attached ital these it of now i the s fem onl supp country ale y partiall orts population . , y di enga rectl were ged y or in to indirectl industry enter at y ; ,

    once be well — a 1 _oii fford . An productive to incre , support ase emp of them the loyment as productive un now , the . The wages power real cap and of ital the onl of y the country consequences country ; and could , wou 2 . as A ld

    is slig " ht In lied read of proportion , the to justment useful country as emp of the wages loyment and time . of , women there is at will first , at be present apt an to increase fancy comparativel th in at the the y productive valueless enlarged ,

    power power of supply would ; , _perhaj one _^ s , exceed the corresponding demand , that the increased etition for number the hi of her laborers loyments would reduce of industry wages would , that the lower increased the rate com of

    remuneration p ositionb . pointing We g have out em alread p that y alth in o so far h addressed by the admission ourselves of to women this sup to

    theless industr p y the , , the y total actual numb number er of persons of persons to ug be emp , supported loyed is sli b g y the y increased aggregate , never wages

    the earned number , is not of increased the laboring ; that class there exceeding will be the no resources glut of labor for their arising support from , marketthat term is commonl

    no competition of an over-crowded labor-, as y increased understood . roductive But , as the employer would now there has for the same excess aggregate of production wages an ? ppower

    Will not the market be overstocked , with commoditiesand a reaction be produced " We Because take : depressing leave this on the henomenon this labor point -market to of quote ? over ii - _-oni Mr l . and J .. S , . conse Mill : — quent .

    inconeconomists comm venience " ' odity or whatever loss have to thoug the p , man ht producer that y persons it or deal , including exist er , ma supp with y exist some y regard , in distinguished the to all case commodities of j any ) oliti one cal ;

    dities that there , in the ma , a y gg be reg a general , surp over assin - g pr may t o h duction e demand of wealth and a : conse a supp quent ly of commo pressed - .

    t condition he " deman ' When of d these all it is classes not writers clear of producers speak which of of the . the . supp . two . ly elements of commodities of demand as outrunning they have

    gr in e " view ater ' First — than the , , let the desire us community su to ppose possess that woul or the the d quantity be means glad of t of o purchase consume commodities . . is i produced . t , . in that is case not ,

    wa possible nt of the that th n er e should f payment be ? an T insufficient hose who demand think so for cannot all commodities have considered , for w sim hat l commodities is which constitutes Each the means ' of s payment of ing for commodities the product . ions It is

    duc inevitabl othe p tive r y y owers p and le , consists of ex the vi . termini c of ountr those p buyers erson we whic sho s h . u mean ld he Could double himself we pay th possesses suddenl e supply y . double c All ommod sellers the itie pro s are in - y

    every mar p ket ; but we should by the same stroke double the purchasing power " But . . it . may . perhaps be supposed that it is that not the the ability to purchase roducof ,

    i ndustr the y desi may re be to gre possess ater tha , t n hat the falls communit sliort , y and desires to consume general . p . . . e limi " ted c Assume community the , most every favorable member of hypothesis which poss for esses the as m p urpose conceivable of , necessar that of that ies a

    duces obt p and ersons ain of an a wh l whose l additional k at no the wn wants y luxuries did uantit are ' not comp as desire of he s letel omet desir , su y p h e pos in s atis , and e fi th ed w at since hich wou a f l d there it la i is gner bor not was and arrives alread economize , y enoug pro h to - . qy g

    With Reference' To Employment Op Women. ...

    WITH REFERENCE' TO EMPLOYMENT OP WOMEN . 155

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/11/