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XX.—DUBLIN FACTORIES.
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Xx.—Dublin Factories.
XX . —DUBLIN FACTORIES .
4 The The Social Following Science Extra...
4 The following extracts froin a paper read during tlie recent Congress of
the Social Science Association at Dublin are valuable , as affording exact . Jellicoe statistics a member employment of the in Society Ireland . of The Friends paper in was Dublin contributed , and was b entitled y Mrs .
" The Condition , and Prospects of Girls employed in Manufactories in Dublin" : —
The Influence of factory life on the social condition of the workwomen of Dublin is , doubtless , of small extent , if compared to its
-effects on the crowded population of the great manufacturing towns of England . Yet it will be found that a very considerable number
of young women are engaged in manufactories in this city—a number likely to be increased as the industrial resources of the country
become thoroughly developed . More than three hundred years ago , the poet Spenser , in his
treatise concerning the state of Ireland , notices , what is now a universally acknowledged fact , that the nature of children Is _j _^ owerfully
affected for good or evil by , as he says , " the conditions of the mothers ; for by them they are framed and fashioned , so as what
they receive from them they will hardly ever after forego . " It is , thereforeimportant to inquire into the condition of those young
women who , must be regarded as ? the future wives and mothers of our humbler citizensand to endeavor to ascertain what are the
, Impediments that lie in the way of their progress . Although factory life here Is free from some of the deeper
shadows which rest upon it in the sister island , it cannot be denied that there is large room for improvement and reform . In the
absence of any accessible centre of information , an estimate of the numbers employed and the rate of wages paid has been carefully
prepared from personal observation and inquiry . The principal employments open to the humbler class of women
may be divided into two sections , —the trades which are guarded fromgeneral intrusion by the jealousies of " craft" and those
occu-, , pations to which the great army of " toilers and spinsters " have free access . To the first division belong the winding of silk , the
weaving of carriage lace ; hat , cap , and bonnet making , tailoring-, boot-closingbrush and in makingbookbinding , & c . In the
second group , are included p the weaving , of linen , cotton , and _frieze , the making up of various articles of clothing , and the paper trade
In most of its branches . In . all of these employments , unless specially noticed , the wages average 6 s . per week of ten hours per
day . The trade of " silkwonian , '' which is on record as the earliest paid branch of female industry in England , affords employment to
about one hundred young women as winders and pickers of silk , in prent the p eculi es of arl tw y e Iri lve sh ye ar rt s of of age and -weavi upw ng a . rds and winders receive take part of
-, the payment for the work done by them . The men employed at tlio
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/35/
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