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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 67

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

    made tliat tlie material suffers in quality and fineness . At Crefeld _, when some of the laborers lothe bad season in weaving

    only work of a very inferior character empy is obtained from them ; but , at Crefeld the greater part of the weavintrade is held by

    women , and these succeed admirably . At g Zurich likewise , women _oebupy five trades out of six . As M . Simon finally sums

    up : " Le premier princi pe economique est d appliquer \ tout producteur d We Vouvrage have auquel alread il est said propre that . " the atelier proprietors vigorously

    .. y oppose any reform ; but in the higher ranks—that is / among the great manufacturers— -resistance is also made . But the opposition t

    compare of the latt wi th , based the wei more ght and on rou magnitude tine than of that thing of the else , former canno . Should the proposed reform take effectthey must sink into the

    im ranks portance of simp of their workmen present , and position renounce . the , M . individual Simon exhibits and collec sound tive

    . ac sense tuall in y emp repudiating loyed in towns the idea to a of country transferring life . The men maj and ori Avomen ty , throug now h f

    habi amusemen t , have t , l so earn temp t to ting doa l t y near the a cafes t hand , thea . t Accustomed res , and other fail to to p welcome depend laces o , '

    with not on t leasure hemselves domes , but t on ic the coun master tlife of and the a wit teli h , it they a certain amount _^ of responsibili p ty . Keform must ry be effected by gradually lessening and increasinthe orders to the

    the number of ateliers , g country . Precedents in Switzerland exist and to _j Germany _> rove this . much Half of can the easil manufactures y be accomp of lished Viersen , as centres

    and Crefeld is the product of home labor , far from the great full of population dted . this At system Lyons , and in addi there tion is , no cer reason tain houses wh have it shou success ld not

    become y aop general . In fine , , as a balance to foreign competition y , recourse must be had either to isolated labor or machinery . " Now , " ahead

    says M . Simon , "if the former will enable our trade to keep r object and hinder in an industrial lk manufac point ture of from view leavin in renouncing g France , we it . can When have the no

    hand hum morality ane -in- for hand , comfort those with , who and the have ha prosperit pp this iness y of of the to trade working combine , it is population the wise two as . " well can Surel , go as y power

    this Further is sound , our as well author as Christian speaks of reasoning those institutions . set on foot by haritable manufacturers and others of the towns which provide

    c hired nurses and nurseries for the children when the mother is edl engaged to motives all day . of most Such praiseworth establishments y benevolence owe their . ori Unfortunatel gin , undoub y t- ,

    y , in th The fl uence result origina and of tors . power thi have s system which overlooked a were mother the it alone sacred to become possesses duty , general the over unfathomable would her child be _^ .

    fatall hica y pernicious lland reasona to the bl future shows this working miserable population ' unna . tura M l . Simon lan in p

    grap ts true li y ght , it , indeed , y needs no exaggeration , . To render , figUr

    Notices Of Books. 67

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 67

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/67/