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Updated: June 1, 2025

Add it up over a year and my sixteen forty-nine'll look big as their thirty dollars to forty dollars a week, see if it don't.” Tillie's old, fat, wheezy mother works on our floor—maybe Tillie really was born there. One day I decided to see what could be done if I went the limit. Suppose I had a sick mother and a lame brother—a lot of factory girls have.

Cornelia Stratton Parker - Working With the Working Woman