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OUB TRADESWOMEN. 147
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Of So One Favourabl Women Of The " Y Str...
times fain to insert another advertisement of the vacancy being filled , in order to stop the endless flood . it follows that those
Where there is not work enough for all , only can obtain employment who possess their labour advantages valuable of some
sort ive over them the a rest preference , which , in by the making eyes - of the employers more . It is , g essentialthereforeto know what are the qualities necessary
to gain this , preference , , and in considering' this we shall confine ourselves to the journeymen , as this instance is the rank which our
tradeswomen The chief qualities must occupy required in the by first the skilful masters and . stead are skill workman ,
steadiwill ness , alway and There s lowness gain is a a standar preference of wages d of . skill over A an in unskilful trade or an not y unstead defined y one every
nor . even workman recognized must in attain words before , but he nevertheless can be emp , loyed real , at which all .
A every master must send out his work done in what is called u a tions business of - the like whole manner trade ; " that and is if , it equal fall b to elo the w this average he loses produc his
customers . This degree , of skill in the journeyman is therefore indisp to endeavour ensable , to and gain it will a livelihood be vain for without any one it . , man To attain or woman this ,
should therefore be the first effort . It . is only what is really full comprehended force of this under hras the e is term not always " learnin unders g a business toodand ; " there but the is
great danger that p women who are now wishing , to try a new sufficientl employ ment qualif _^ from themselves their natural and anxiety their consequent to begin , should failure not be
made an argument y y against the , employment of women at all , instead of its being atrributed to the right cause equally
we app do licable ent not movement forget to men . that . But The it while is a dexteri great plainl ty difficul y of stating the ty in workman what the way is required is of the the
pres result of years of study and practice , and in most instances of a beg . considerable ins by being pecuniary apprenticed outlay sometimes . About the for age seven of and fourteen seldom he
according for less than to circumstances -five years . is A usuall premium paid , larger and his or services smaller for ,
the whole or the greater , part of his y term , are given to his masterSometimes the master boards himbut frequently
the whole . cost of his maintenance is borne by , his friends . As soon as his indentures have expired he with works his on his own
accountand his skill goes on increasing increasing practice to the inference . , The anti that quit it y is and the universality best if not the of apprenticeshi only way of gaining p leads
the object desired and , for different it cannot nations be supposed the custom that woul during d have so
many ages among
Oub Tradeswomen. 147
TRADESWOMEN . 147
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/3/
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