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    406 ON THE CAUSE OF THE DISTRESS

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    There Is A General Impression That The D...

    now women hav mi e to ght be have maintained been comfortably bthe rates supported or be forced by it , to wlio live will by y

    , dishonest means . into One trades of the is strongest the danger objections lest the consequent to the introduction reduction of of women men _' s

    to wages work mi to g increase ht , render the it resources necessary of for tlie married familto women the destruction to go out y

    of all home comfortand the injury of the health , of both mothers and children . But , the fact isthat the wives of well-paid

    workmen in trades from which , women are carefully excluded , as take are so even in large washing now a proportion frequentl at home y of , remainder compelled to their aid in husband tlie to is go support not ' out s wages to of work their h are to or families spent else at to ,

    the alehousethat the enougprovide wife ordinary We comforts need , not without therefore the assistance be afraid of of the incurring earnings this of evil the ,

    the becaus men . e it would is already be reduced , incurred would . , Moreover still of the be sufficient wife , the wages if th to m to aintain woul which d

    renounce a family the without alehouse the . assistance French workmenin trades ey open to womenearn from 2 s . 6 d . to 4 s . 6 d . a day , , the average being

    _rabout would 3 get , $ . 6 less d . ; there and this is no is reason certainl to y suppose enough to that rear Eng a lis famil hmen y

    l upon , health as agricultural families , labourers on 2 s . 3 d . in sl day Lincolnshire with no assistance will bring from up y

    p as their to arge iece the 2 s . - wive work 6 men < _£ s which , ; except the where women is in th quite ey harvest are emp enoug p loyed aid -time h by for in . the these a Where day sing , they trades le the woman get payment earn from to as live Is much is . 3 on by d .

    in comfort , . * means reducing With of regar them enjoyment d or to their the ; the families men effect , we , to however see want that , , but it of is this of not curtailing curtailment a question their of of

    men the means and boys of enj from oym entering ent woul these d be trades to deter . Many numbers would of young prefer Eng their the hi land sisters gh . wages Thus , to offered the , they great would in the benefit emi Colonies grate of both to and 1 parties 5 s leave . or 20 , their for s . a when trade week the in to

    * The rates of wages in France Is taken from the census of 1848 , and also from a . a The statement French of workmen tlie correspondent are discontented of the " with Morning their Post rate " of payment a few w , eeks and go

    lowered not are p likel etiti y by onin to the g be for introduction granted leave to . strike In of some women to turn trades hi ; hest the for , the women instance wages out , in , do a the petition not decoration seem which gets to 20 be of is

    orcelainit is women who earn the gwages . One woman c p francs ases are ( 16 , , however shillings , ) exceptional a day , and has ; as no a man general in the rule to trade lower , there gets can as be much little . doubt These ,

    that the introduction of women a tendency wages .

    406 On The Cause Of The Distress

    406 ON THE CAUSE OF THE DISTRESS

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/46/