A Seasonal Industry: A Study of the Millinery Trade in New York |
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A Seasonal Industry; A Study of the Millinery Trade in New York, Mary Van Kleeck No preview available - 2006 |
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$6 and less $8 and less actual earnings Average weekly earnings branches Broadway busy season calendar year 1913 cent copyists current payroll department stores designers Division Street dull season employed in millinery employers estab Factory Investigating Commission facts Fifth Avenue firms footnote forewoman girls grade hats included industry interviewed at home irregular labor learners less less less less than $10 lishments living wage lower East Side makers Manhattan maximum force median earnings median wage ment milliners millinery shops millinery trade minimum wage workers nery number of employes number of weeks occupations period of employment piece workers ployed rates of pay rates of wages records reported retail shops retail-wholesale secured SHOWN BY CURRENT shows slack season statistics Table tion Trade School trimmer trimming wage board wage rates wage-earners week workers employed weekly wage weeks and less wholesale millinery establishments wholesale shops York City York State Factory
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Page 179 - After careful deliberation and study of the results of its investigation and the testimony taken, the commission has come to the conclusion that the State is justified in protecting the underpaid women workers and minors in the interests of the State and society. It finds that there are thousands of women and minors employed in the industries throughout the State of New York who are receiving too low a wage to adequately maintain themselves in health and decent comfort. The commission believes that...
Page 262 - means any person under twenty-one years of age bound by indentures of apprenticeship : " Board " means the Board of Public Health : " Certifying medical practitioner " means any legally qualified medical practitioner who is authorized by the Minister to grant certificates under the authority of this Act :
Page 262 - means any person (other than an apprentice) who does not receive a piece-work price or rate or a wages price or rate fixed by any Special Board for persons other than apprentices or improvers, and who is not over twenty-one years of age, or who being over twenty-one years of age holds a license from an inspector authorised by the Minister to be paid as an improver.
Page 181 - Each wage board shall take into consideration the needs of the employees, the financial condition of the occupation and the probable effect thereon of any increase in the minimum wages paid, and shall endeavor to determine the minimum wage, whether by time rate or piece rate, suitable for a female employee of ordinary ability in the occupation in question, or for any or all of the branches thereof, and also suitable minimum wages for learners and apprentices and for minors below the age of eighteen...
Page 168 - AN ACT To protect the health, morals and welfare of women and minors employed in industry by establishing a wage commission and providing for the determination of living wages for women and minors.
Page 46 - ... prosperous a trimmer capable of designing hats may be employed for a week or a month at the beginning of the season. The best of the wholesale milliners also go to Paris while others buy their models from importers. Some of them create models as distinctive and unique as in retail shops. In others, of cheaper grade, hats are sold by the dozen or the gross, and uniformity in the making is necessary. From this fact arises the need for copyists — workers who can make a hat from frame to trimming,...
Page 180 - ... representatives of employers, employees, and the public, in any industry in which it has reason to believe women and minors are receiving less than a living wage. Wherever possible, the employers and workers are to be elected by their respective groups; but if this is impossible, employers and employees shall be notified of meetings at which the work of the wage commission shall be explained and the representatives of the trade asked to present recommendations to the wage board. The wage commission,...
Page 49 - ... from the division of work in a retail shop or in a wholesale establishment where high grade hats are made. In the retail shops the workers are grouped together in the making of one hat. In the typical cheap wholesale workroom, the parts of the hat are divided between separate groups of workers. The difference is fundamental. The latter plan results in specialization. The former means that each worker in the group has the advantage of watching every other part of the hat-trimming, and increase...
Page 261 - DETERMINATION OF THE MILLINERS' BOARD. In accordance with the provisions of the Factories and Shops Acts, the Special Board appointed to determine the lowest prices or rates of payment to be paid for wholly or partly preparing or manufacturing, either inside or outside a factory or work-room, the following articles, that is to say : — " Women's, girls', and infants...
Page 178 - ... the usual price is $9.00. It is quite apparent that this standard is altogether too high for the great mass of working women investigated, over 50 per cent, of whom receive less than $8.00 a week. Dr. Streightoff, after careful computation and study of reports of students of the subject, concludes that the very lowest sum upon which a working woman can decently maintain herself in that " city of the State where the rents and food prices seem about the lowest, in Buffalo, is $8.20 per week the...