Vocations for the Trained Woman; Opportunities Other Than Teaching: Introductory Papers, Volume 7Agnes Frances Perkins |
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Page 24 - A tenement house is any house or building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the home or residence of three families or more living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon any floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or privies, or some of them.
Page 160 - Les art. 3, 4 et 11 de la loi du 2 novembre 1892, sur le travail des enfants, des filles mineures et des femmes dans les établissements industriels, sont modifiés ainsi qu'il suit :
Page 22 - Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Page 24 - ... the deputy chief of the inspection department of the district police. with the exception of such duties and powers as are now imposed by law upon the chief inspector of boilers or the boiler inspectors of the district police, and with the further exception of such powers and duties as relate to the inspection of buildings under erection, alteration or repair, are hereby transferred to the state board of labor and industries. Said board may delegate to such commissioner, deputy commissioners or...
Page 25 - ... a room or apartment used for living or sleeping purposes and which has a separate and distinct entrance from the outside shall not be subject to the...
Page 176 - This Bureau is engaged in a study of Home Work in the Industries of Massachusetts, and would greatly appreciate your co-operation in furnishing us with information asked for on the enclosed form. Permit me to assure you that any information you may be willing to furnish will be used solely for statistical purposes and will not be published under your name. Assuring you of our appreciation of your courtesy in this matter, I am Respectfully yours, CHARLES F. GETTEMY, Director. HOME WORK. Definition:...
Page 171 - Report of royal commission of inquiry into the hours and general conditions of employment of female and juvenile labour in factories and shops, and the effect on such employees. Sydney. WA Gullick. 1912. Appendices "A" and "B", p. liii-lviii. *Rates for piece-work paid to out-workers, particularly those occupied in the manufacture of women's "ready-made
Page 152 - Henry Rogers. The theory of the minimum wage. (Address before the joint session of the American association for labor legislation and the American economic association, Boston, Dec.
Page 25 - ... shall keep a register of the names and addresses plainly written in English of the persons to whom such articles or materials are given to be so manufactured, altered, repaired or finished or with whom they have contracted to do the same.
Page 24 - A room or apartment in a tenement or dwelling house * shall not be used for the purpose of making, altering, repairing or finishing therein coats, vests, trousers or wearing apparel of any description, except by the members of the family...