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annual earnings Berlin Board of Labor Boston buttons Carl Heymann Celluloid cents cents cents chain child labor Clothing coats and pants contractors crocheting der Heimarbeit dress trimmings earning less elastic woven employed home workers employers employment families of home firms following table shows garments Garters hand-knit Hausindustrie Haverhill Heimarbeit Home Workers 16 home workers earning Home Workers Employed homework Hosiery and machine-knit houses income Individual Home Workers Industrial Union inspection inspectors Irish lace Jewelry and Silverware Labor and Industries large number Less Less Less less than specified licenses living machine-made manufacturers Massachusetts ment Neckwear number of families number of home number of workers Paper Percentage persons processes Rates of Pay regulation season sewing shoe trimmings Shoes and shoe shows the number social Soziale Praxis sweating system Sweatshops tenement tion total number trade travail à domicile wages wearing apparel Wien women Wyman & Sons York
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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 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 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 xii - ... nineteen hundred and nine, and for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act and other related acts, the state board of labor and industries shall have power to appoint and remove, in conformity with the provisions of section eight of chapter seven hundred and twenty-six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended by section eight of chapter eight hundred and thirteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, six inspectors in addition to the number...
Page 152 - Berlin. Carl Heymann. 1913. p. 438-442. *CARLTON, Frank Tracy. The sweated industries. In his History and problems of organized labor. Boston. DC Heath & Co. 1911. p. 359-378. *COMMONS, John R. The sweating system. In Industrial commission reports, v. 19. Washington. Government Printing Office. 1902. p. 740-746. *Tenement-house work and legislation regarding it. In Industrial commission reports, v. 15. Washington. Government Printing Office. 1901. p. 369-384. DORR, Rheta C. The child who toils at...
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 - All powers and duties with reference to the enforcement of laws relating to labor and the employment thereof, the inspection and licensing of buildings or parts of buildings used for industrial purposes, the inspection and licensing of the workers therein and of all other industrial employees within the commonwealth, the enforcement of laws relating to the employment of women and minors, and the institution of proceedings in prosecution of violations of any of the said laws, now conferred or imposed...
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...
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