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Updated: June 12, 2025
Priscilla gave a kind of melancholy snort and the girl moved slowly away through the open door and beyond it, out among the radiant flowers. Her little figure in deep black was soon lost to sight, and after watching her for a minute, Priscilla turned to her home-work with tears blinding her eyes so thickly that she could scarcely see.
And even in wintry weather the little room grew hot and stuffy, and we terminated our schoolday, much exhausted, with minds lax, lounging attitudes, and red ears. What became of Mr. Sandsome after the giving-out of home-work, the concluding prayer, and the aftermath of impositions, I do not know.
Shoe-binding was a home industry, existing in many of the towns, and open to all the abuses of home-work. Lynn, Massachusetts, was then and for long after the center of the shoe trade, and the scene of some of the earliest attempts of home-workers to organize.
Since a smaller sweating-master can set up business on some £2 capital, and does not expect to make much more profit as employer than as workman, he is able to change from one capacity to the other with great facility. The high rent for large business premises, especially in London, makes for the small workshop or home-work system.
These two chief factors in the "sweating" problem, sub-contract and irregular home-work, are far more prevalent in female industries than in male. Hours of Labour in Women's Trades. The Factory Act is supposed to protect women engaged in industrial work from excessive hours of labour, by setting a limit of twelve hours to the working day, including an interval of two hours for meals.
Joseph Brownlow has come, she helps her boys so with their home-work that the others have not a chance if one does not look to it oneself. Then it appeared that she told Mr. Ogilvie it wasn't fair, and that he would give her no redress." "Absurd woman! It is not a matter of unfairness, as I told her.
But after Easter Maxwell's factory Bill a special Factory Act for East London, touching the grown man for the first time, and absolutely prohibiting home-work in certain specified industries was to be brought forward, and could not fail to provide Maxwell's adversaries with many chances of red and glorious battle.
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