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OUR TRADESWOMEN. 149
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Of So One Favourabl Women Of The " Y Str...
been canno broug t subsist ht down We to the journey point - below _ra _^ which the same the journeymen standard is
not necessary . for women say . Adam Smith , says—A man must always live bhis workand his must at least be
" y , wages sufficient what more to otherwise maintain him it would . They be must impossible even upon for him most to occasions bring up be a famil some y - ,
and the race , of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation . " •( " Wealth of Nations , " book i . chap , viii . )
And he goes on to say it has been supposed that the lowest specie double s their of common own maintenance labourers mus Now t ever a yw woman here e is not at under least
k the sam her e se necessity lf alone . It will be . sufficient conseuen if tl she afford earn to enoug work h f to or qy
wage eep s on which a journ , eyman cannot exist . The natural effect will wages will be gi , the that y the , will al ways be ference assumin able t to o g women sell they cheaper hav , because e equ . a The l skill y ff women pay , emp t ing loyers will l th ess
part there of fore the have men the can command prevent their f the ultimatel trade , and y b eing eor driven s on out of it
of This women . is an advantag to com e ensa so te great for all and the so irresistible drawbacks in to favour which
their sex of , subjects an invid them ious p . kind But it and is of one which which the at first Christian sight seems
un princi to p le o 9 ' f almost u doing forbids unto them others , to avail you themselves would they . shoul But this do
the is a fallacy su y per , ficial of it view It , and must be littl remembered e deeper cons th id at the tion reduction will shew of
but wages is is the not natural the . object effect at produced which women bthe aim simp in l learning e act of getting a trade
emp no control loyment . ; The one which quanti is ty inevitable of work y , to and be over done which in any they trade have ,
being merous limited as the , work and the can workmen support , it alread follows y engaged that if more i being l labourer as k nu s -
present must come in be , work whether displaced women h either for six or entirel men onl , y some the or partiall effect of the of y ori . two g If m there ore wor being is at
added must be enoug either that two of y , the six are driven outor the of the whole six are reduced sufficiently to pay , the
result wages wages of Some the of additional the eiht two would . The be either latter entirely would be or partially the . first
for unemp all . ; loyed and , in the order whole to g obtain quantit emp y of loyment work not they being would sufficient offer to of this
last take of and emp the then lower loyment the wages remaining . of . They the The would whole emp six loyer resort would number would to experience the would avail same be himself means a permanently diminution , till at , wages
Our Tradeswomen. 149
OUR TRADESWOMEN . 149
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/5/
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