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DUBLIN FACTORIES. 109
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in the city ; they earn an average of 8 s . per week of nine hours per daythe cutters-out , machine-workers , & c , earning the largest
pro-, portion Tailoring of wages is another . of the trades now in a state of transition
froni that of a handicraft to machine labor . English-made goods are coming over at a price only to be met by the use of machinery ,
yet an outcry has heeu raised against the sewing-machine , on the ground that greater numbers of women and children can by its
adoption be admitted to the trade . The making of waistcoats is a remunerative _occiipation for women ; good workers can earn fully
10 s . per week by hand sewing . It is difficult to get clever workers in this as in many other trades , and they often object to
the restraint of the work-room . The nature of the two last-named occupations , hitherto carried on day and night in stifling rooms ,
where fresh air was rarely permitted to enter , induced such habits amongst this class of tradespeople that many manufacturers have
welcomed as a boon the use of machinery , by which punctuality , order , and industry are rendered compulsory .
There are three pin manufactories in the suburbs which give enrployment to a number of females both in the factories and in
rooms in the city , in sorting , making up , & c , of pins ; all the Those actual at process -work in of the manufacture city can earn being " even now allowing done them by machinery Monday , '' ?
, said one employer , " seven or eight shillings j _> er week . " Many of these women are of very low class , and there is great difficulty in
getting the work promptly executed . This idle habit of taking a holiday on Monday is not confined to the working classes , but
prevails even among children at infant and other schools . Linencottonand woollen factories afford the . class of
employment in , which , apprenticeship is not required . The older hands their instruct beg ils inners . About , and a receive thousand some . young payment women out of princi the pall work y tlie of
mills daug . hters pup A few of the are poorer clean and class tid of y , tradesmen but the majorit , are occup y , , thoug ied h in quick these
witted in many ways , are far inferior in _ajrpearance , manners , and habitsto whatwith a little carethey might "become .
The , culture of , the flax plant , a , product so exactly suited to the climate of Irelandis very little attemptedexcept in the province
of Ulster : there , it has taken such deej ) , rootand attained so , flourishing a growth , that in the county Antrim alone (
independently of the preparing processes ) over 660 , 000 _sj ) indles are Dublin are at work occup , twisting ied have weaving its fibres factory it into into linen thread loying . , wh In about ilst the 4000 400 neighborhood power women looms and of
girls , who we earn from one 3 _^ . to Is . per emp week , according to their aptitude and industryThe irls are all above the age of thirteen in tliis
as well as in . most g other manufactories ; so _tliat schools are not
demanded by law for their instruction . In one department a
Dublin Factories. 109
DUBLIN FACTORIES . 109
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/37/
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