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Vol. VIII. December 1, 1881. No. 46.
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XXXIX.—LOCAL SOCIETIES.
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A PAPER HEAD AT THE MEETING OP THE ASSOC...
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY .
Vol. Viii. December 1, 1881. No. 46.
Vol . VIII . December 1 , 1881 . No . 46 .
Xxxix.—Local Societies.
XXXIX . —LOCAL SOCIETIES .
A Paper Head At The Meeting Op The Assoc...
A PAPER HEAD AT THE _MEETING OP THE _ASSOCIATION FOE THE _PHOMOTIOjS OP SOCTAX _SCIENCEHEIiX ) AT DUBLINAUGUST 1861 .
, , , ! The success of tlie movement for increasing _tlie _mimlber of employ-Unents open to women must dependin great measureon tlie extent
to which the ideas and plans of the , Central Society are , taken up and carried out in the country .
The use of the London Society is to make experiments in order to ascertain practically what employments are suitable to women and
what are not . There are many different theories and opinions on / the subjectthe truth of which can _Tbe proved by experience only .
. Each experiment , is expensive , as first attempts must necessarily be , . and in some instances costs more than it is worth , if the number of
women employed at that one place be taken alone into consideration , but not more than it is worth if the value of the knowledge
• , obtained be considered . This knowledge will enable local societies or private benevolence to carry out the same plans in other towns at
a small expense , and thus will indirectly provide a large number of women with a respectable means of earning a good livelihood .
The object of this paper is to show which of the experiments of the Central Society are the most successful , and to suggest the means
by wliich they may be carried out in other places . The most successful experiment iswithout doubtthe printing
establishment called the Victoria Press , . Strictly speaking , , this establishment ought not perhaps to be reckoned among the Society ' s
efforts undertaking , as it . was The not Societ set y up spent by the £ . 50 Committee in apprenticing , but was 1 five a private young
women of the whole , and the undertaking Press is therefore . Here twent generall y young y considere women d to and form girl a s p find art
¦ employment earnand at , at work as good easy wages in comparison as lads in the of same that position required usuall from y
milliner , s' apprentices , the hours of labor being only eight a day , with occasional overtime of a couple of hours . The business at the
Victoria Press has increased so rapidly that at the end of a year and a lialf the premises in Great Coranx _street axe _liaidly sufficient
for the necessities of the Office .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page unpug, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/1/
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