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10 woman's work in the world's clothinc.
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subject was fully investigated in 1843 , the Analysis of the of Governmen seventy-two t Report witnesses stated against it to be seventeen u proved b that y a preponderance the health of
those employed in cotton mills is nowise , inferior to that in of other the occupa factor tions popula , " and tion sta to tis be tics even indeed dec have idedl sho superior wn the to heal th t at h
th of e H the espec mere labouring ting being y their poor assemble in who tellec d tual t ot condi herwis therjoining tion e em it ployed canno in y discussion . t be but th and at
hearing variety of opinionmus oge t tend , to call out the mental powers and sharpen the faculties , ; while it affords the greatest
utterl facilit y for beyond obtainin the g reac by h means of sing of le combina efforts . tion The , advan important tages
influence superiority on of t commercial he prevalent success system , of and large indeed numbers the workin general g
trial together of the in one experiment great est of ablishmen disintegrating t , has been the proved large bodies in a fair of
t o pera the tives sing con le and grega independen ted in ordinary t syst mills em of , and each par p t erson ially re carry vert ing ing
turers on his of own Coventry work in are his numbered own home about . Among 400 " Cottage the silk -factories manufac , " - of blocks of 40 50 small houses in
consisting or arranged a row / throug only divided hout the by whole tliin partitions length and The with weavers steam who shafting reside running in these
. cottages , some possessing six , some four , but the greater number s onl tor y ies two where looms it , have is so their connected working with -apparatus the steam fitted - up ine in as the to t op
lcept in , motion by it as in an ordinary factory eng , and large ei quan ther tit ies lar of e rib manu bons fac are turers thus who woven have from more pa order ttern s s t f urni t shed he
can execu y te g in their own mill , s , or by non-manufacturing y b f merc e eing males hants th us . em In d e loyed thes roduc e cottage than tive males the -factories , earnings and as the in are labour the of silk course of -mills both consid sexes more
erable ; yet when p some improvemen , t in machinery or the roduction of some new desin calls for alterations in the looms
i p t becomes apparent that workers g "who are independent units , heads can ill hi compete of a great with those italist establishments and little can which be effected are under by these the
cottage p weavers unless cap pecuniary , assistance be afforded by some millowner _, who may require their co-operation . The latest
that Parliamentary " the tendency report of on experience the subject , is in to 1861 a return , affirm to s , aggregate therefore ,
rather rather than than to to cottage isolated factories factory work not , onl i . e ., on to account large factories of the
greater cheapness , but of the readier , power y of _joroduction which _, combination givesand the convenience which it affords "
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10 Woman's Work In The World's Clothinc.
10 woman ' s work in the world ' s _clothinc .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/10/
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