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    WORK AND WAGOES OF: WOMEN IN PBANCE. 321

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    purses are the , bags produce , chair of and this table class covers of labour , slippers . Besides , & c , made what in is Paris thus ,

    times done openl of y , the same of orders workers that do the much in Parisi secret an . needlewomen It is only in poor

    can get any pressure thing like full work . The slop-seller , with . his " small worker profit and s in any quick part returns of the / country ' realizes , on a his very own large terms , sum and , is can in fact get

    master of the hand-labour market . Needlework itself is now threatened with the same revolution

    which befel the wheel and distaff . The announcement , _" Clothes Alread Factory , " we is posted see the up sewing in Paris -machine ; they h t ave aking begun the to place sew b of y steam hand- .

    labour y even , in our own houses . A new invention , if really serviceable Now , , we is sur must e , b remember efore long , to that mak : taking e its way the and entir hol e aggregate d its own _. of

    workwomen of all kinds in France , more than one-half of them are needlewomen . It has been carefully , calculated how high a sum may

    be fixed on as giving a correct idea of their real incomes . "We find that the highest class of needlewomen—that is , those who who work work to

    for good order the , onl get slop with an -shops average regard , get of but to 2 Pari s . 1 s el . s day _4 : \ d in , * . per whilst many day of the . the Thi large provinces s rate mass of , the pay pay holds is

    considerabl y less . This sum makes no allowance for the periodical slack times y which occur , and which are known as " dead seasons . _" condition of

    a woman Looking in the Paris case , obli calml ged y to in live the face by , the what work can of be her the own hands to the ?

    ranks To put of the " case icked at its workers best , " let and us so suppose earns that at least she her belongs 2 s . a day . But then it must p be remembered , that Sundays and holidays reduce

    that the days in addition of the year to this to deduction three hundred , there and is generall ten working y a long days " , slack and

    season , . " Silk and velvet embroiderers , indeed , can earn as much as 3 sor 4 sa daybut during six months of the year they have

    .. . , nothing of at least to three do ; and months inmost . This branche takes s a of clear trade sixty there -six is days a dead out season of the

    bring year , ing and down reduces the it an to nual two income hundred of and the thirty needlewoman -four working to £ 13 days 8 s , .

    Even if you put her incomings above what they actually are , and her suppose health that to she be invariabl is gaining y £ good 25 per and year her , ( si that ght unimp is , always aired supposing , ) how is

    she to manage , so as to make both ends meet ? She must have lod clothing ing for , food less , lod than ging £ 5 and a year washing unless . she She is cannot content get to share even her her room poor _,

    g , vacy with . a The friend most , thoug unpretending h this plan wardrobe is unhealth she y can and have destroys , inclusive all pri of

    the heavy item of shoe-leather , will cost another £ 5 15 * . per annum . " that Washing she generall does some y costs of this a good for hersel deal for fwe a woman , set but it supposin down at may

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    Work And Wagoes Of: Women In Pbance. 321

    WORK AND _WAGOES OF : WOMEN IN PBANCE . 321

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/33/