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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 65

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    The "Workwoman .. . "I? Cie Ouvriere ., ...

    pooi they _^ will unless recognise " famil that y life no " permanent be encouraged relief . can _Tbe " t _d afforded issociations likewis to th d <

    Secours" " Caisses des _Itetraites" and such socieies , are ( ' force necessary and , ; prosperit but the y basis to the of country happiness , is to undoub the peop tedl le y , t he _productive existence

    of domestic life . that In treating than of the third silk of manufactory the work is at done Lyons by , our women author —indeed states

    more one- _, little is entrusted to men which can _foe handed over to the other sex . This does not arise from French masters being advocates of female

    labor of women , but rather irt certain from branches the advantages of manufacture they derive . from One important ployment land think

    point upon which M . Simon animadverts strongy , we justly , is the system of apprenticeshi make it p custom under to which ive men t and to smaller women

    proprie seer serve s . then tors The engage , or grea ra t ther the firms overseers requisite , number cer a tain p of ieces hands of g , work pay ou . The their over ser- - in

    vices influence or-worksho , however exercised p often , at very superintends hy reduced these men rates three is . An or most four overseer -pernicious different one metiers . large They . room The not

    t ogether y aid in in the stifling congregation ill-ventilated of men apartments and women ; but indiscriminatel they seriously y

    interfere with the interests of the employes , by appropriating a large large swept manufacturers proportion away , workmen of their and and ri wom g addi htful en tion gains could to receivin . take If - these work g the overseers directl full price y from were for

    their laborbe enable , d to , pursue their occupation in a great measure unab at home le to . , gain It has equal few been wages found tions with the from manufacture men experience . Physical of that the ly larger they women cannot ieces are

    satisfaction of accomp silk . lish There ( _with viz . is that one excep at thing Lyons which ) , women M . Simon always speaks have of been with paid p grea for t

    ted work that performed in , land in the the same same proportion euity has as men t been . It obs is erved to be thoug regret h -

    reform perhaps so much Eng late needed years . the It pub will l q be press gratif may ying have to all been friends hast , enin of g the their is

    workman and workwoman when the motto of employers those " A chaemi few words suivant ses has ceuvres been . " stri At ctl Lyons and the honora princi bl p y le carried embodied out in . y

    part takes "Whilst the the on wife opportunit the of subj the ect propri y to of observe the etor ateliers usuall bit ; and the lays . very their in active business occupants and transactions , important M . Simon . _,

    Writers among women on France of all have classes frequentl in that y y rather remarked p country severel . M on . this Michelet braids peculiarity , if the we

    mistake system in the by not wMch fields , in his women exposed "La are to Feninie the compelled try , " ing variations to labor most of y up temp Unnaturall erature y .

    A . s a convincing open , proof of the calamitous effects of such labor , he

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    Notices Of Books. 65

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 65

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/65/