Author: Women's Trade Union Leagu MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332139903
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Excerpt from The History of Trade Unionism Among Women in Boston That the working woman has an industrial problem of her own quite apart from that which the workingman has to face, is well recognized, and indeed it is a commonplace to say that women, more frequently than men, work for low wages, long hours and under unsanitary conditions. Without discussing this problem in a large way, it has seemed worth while to raise the question, how far is trade unionism a means of solving the problem or any part of it? How much has been accomplished in the past? How much of promise does it hold for the future? In attempting an answer, it seemed best to present an accurate account, so far as it could be obtained, of trade unionism as it exists and as it has existed among the women of this city. The facts have been stated impartially if sympathetically in the belief that nothing can be more illuminating than such a statement and in order that these facts may be judged - if need be - from varied points of view. A preliminary word of comment is, perhaps, necessary to point out how far the trade union question for women is different from the same question for men, and why the movement for women, has been so belated. There is one "primary explanation" for the fact that women are underpaid, over-worked, and victims of unsanitary conditions. They are, for the most part, untrained workers, and because of this and of certain custom-imposed limitations regarding what is called "women's work," there is a great over-supply of labor in the occupations which are open to them. Trade unionism among women, therefore, presents itself as one phase of the problem of the organization of unskilled labor, and it must in all fairness then be asked: Is trade unionism the best method of helping women who are unskilled and for whom the field of employment is limited? 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.