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108 DUBLIN FACTORIES.
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looms can earn £ 2 to £ 2 10 s . per week , but cannot Ibe induced to make suffering in provision the 1 severel United y for States from a ec the rainy The depression weaving day , " and of of trade carriage many caused families lace b fringe y are the , civil now & c ,
war . , finishing one employs hundred , in & c good not of hats very times . health , froni The y apprentices sixty -looking to ei women g g hty ive young one are year occup women of ied their - . in Over tim the e .
, , without Most of receiving the wages loyers . in the above-mentioned trades are
interested in the moral emp instruction of the young women , who are a decentorderly class . A knowledge of these callings is generally
not handed so , much down needed from one as the famil handiness y to another acquired , and "b y mental early acquaintance _edLication is
with the art . women In the who cap may -making earn 6 there s . to Ss is . per a want week . of The skilled sewing industriou -machine s
has been , introduced in this branch of industry , but only for ornamental machine stitching The , making as the of _regLilar straw cap bonnets -makers afforde will d not emp work loyment at the at
one time . to a very large number of women , but is now carried on merel Of y the in handicraft a private way trades . bookbinding employs by far the largest
, p number loyers see of g no irls , obj princi ection pall to y in women stitching tak , in folding g a hi , gher & c . position Some em in
the art ; and in one respectable house , a woman successfully The manages a machine from which 45 . to was 16 previousl s . week y attended . The op to eratives by a man take . per
wages range instruction in more apprentices the lower of their . from departments Thoug time the h not without age required education of twelve wages to greatl , , read who according or _imist facilitates write g to ive _while their their one occup need year rise ied in or of
the trade . In one or two , houses , girls are y engaged at very low in routine workwhich has the effect of afterwards lessening
wages their value as intelligent , artisans . out The notice women Their occup trade ied in of marine icking stores and sorting must not rags be thoug passed h with dirty
-. p , and 85 . a repulsive week . Large -looking numbers , is easy are , and emp they loyed are in sometimes this way ; able and , thoug to earn h h character for
honest creatures generall y . y who illiterate These frequent women , their by emp must -lanes loyers not be give ing confused them baskets a with hi of g rude the miserable toys and
sweet stuff , which they barter with , carry the street children for rags , in instances torn from their alreadtattered garments .
some The introduction iven rise to a of new sewing order of machines factories y has which , within bring the together last two in
large years on are in emp , work their g loy - ed rooms own in boot dwellings artisans -closing whose . in Of ei callings these ght of occup had the , ations previousl largest nearl establishments y been y 500 carried girls
108 Dublin Factories.
108 DUBLIN FACTORIES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/36/
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