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148 OUR TRADESWOMEN.
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e co q uall tinued y efficacious if experience , yet less expensive uld have , in foun time d any or money other . mode But tt t
term funds reach appren of to ti Each ceshi t pay he wom p must premiums under en therefore now the nor seek usual get mean ing over condi emp s of the t loymen io subsistence ns difficulty is t . They e according during ou ha o v e the no he to _<
they her too individual strong . put l themselves y that oppor it tuni will on ties be a , level bu in t vain we with cannot to the expect impress average success upon workman unless them .
Their an interest sex will in the be no movement advantage . A while few emp it is loyers in its who infancy take _y may
p and ut up the w public ith inferior will not workmanshi do so at p , all bu , . t they There will is not not do in so general long , t
t In any he the onl personal majorit consider y tie o a f tion cases tween wi t t h the t he tt er are loyers lo en er tirel and as y a unkno he purchaser emp wn loyed , and of .
labour y isnot who does the work emp bu y t how , it is done . If wellhe , con , tinues his custom ; if ill , he goes somewhere else .-
Fort , unately the two other conditions , success are greatly in ? - in favour all , of and wom the en . remaining Steadiness one is a of qualit wages y which is so much t be expec in thei ted in r
f avour W probabili tha con t , ty st as ultimatel it ute shall one y he see the left by it - ems and tirel - b y t in he , some their cost of hands rades produc . w tion .
al e w The lements or w k expense ing ages s form it of up the of a , and considerable the price t raw he of profi material the t of finished t , f t requen he manufac wages article tly . t t urer he Of the p , rinci these are lab t o he , u wages rer par chief in t .
This is especially the case in the more intellectual occupations , positors carried such as , on prin reader f by ting the women s , and pressmen . law In type writing , the and and form o , thers t er he oth , , the er tw o materials wages t grea rades t of er no ; the th w and an being com the in
expense opaper , , writers articles the latter is A the but reduction cost trifling of the of in paj comparison _> er , pen is therefore s , ink with , and the the other wages constant nece of ss aim the ary
certain oth of emp er . , . loyers so Of effectual all who methods , are or so continuall for lasting wages attracting , as y t ch striving e i apness custom to . ers undersell If , a n tradesman one t is each l
could permanently produce an aricle n common use aa ess price one ives than more anyone for els anything e , he woul than d he make can a hel rap p ; id and fortune we cannot . _ISTo
butcher upon imag g ine paying is even supp the a ly shilling ing amiabl the e whole a author pound nei of ghbourhood for " Unto his this mutton at last tenpence " when insisting . his It directlfor
has the , rate however has , long become ago impossibl , through e to the reduce overcrowding wages of trades y , ,,
148 Our Tradeswomen.
148 OUR TRADESWOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/4/
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