Womens And Wages In The District Of Columbia In 1937

Author : Ethel Lombard Best
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428607579
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Women's Hours and Wages in the District of Columbia in 1937 (Classic Reprint) written by Ethel Lombard Best and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Women's Hours and Wages in the District of Columbia in 1937 The industries surveyed were laundries; dry-cleaning plants; fac tories; department, ready-to-wear, and limited-price stores; beauty shops; hotels; and restaurants. Offices as such were not surveyed, but data concerning Office workers in the various industries covered were secured and these have been reported separately. About 200 establishments, Selected as a representative cross sec tion Of woman-employing industries, were covered. Excepting beauty shops, a few of Which had only three employees, no firm was included that employed less than five women. Pay-roll records were secured for a total of over women. In all but a few cases the investiga tors received the cordial cooperation Of employers. That the past 5 years has seen great changes 111 the size and charac ter Of the population of the District Of Columbia 1s common knowledge. Unfortunately only the decennial census, in its report on occupations, supplies comprehensive figures for men and women separately that indicate the industrial distribution of the two sexes. For this reason conditions in the later years Of every census decade, especially if changes ln employment are known to be considerable are a matter of guesswork. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.