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Updated: June 24, 2025
"We only pay a dollar and a half to learners," he said, smiling unpleasantly over large yellow teeth. I fled in dismay. Down Broadway, along Bleecker, and up squalid Thompson Street I hurried to a paper-box factory. The office of E. Springer & Company was in pleasant contrast to the flower sweat-shop, for all its bright colors.
I know that a certain order of men in power use that power to lower the ideals and standards of womanhood when they can. A pretty young girl once in my service related to me the cold-blooded suggestions made to her by her employer to increase the miserable wage paid her in a sweat-shop. The sacrifice of her virtue seemed no more to this man than the sale of an old garment.
Roosevelt has advocated a typical "State Socialist" program of labor reforms including: "A workday of not more than eight hours." "The abolition of the sweat-shop system." "Sanitary inspection of factory, workshop, mine, and home." "Liability of employers for injury to body and loss of life" and "an automatically fixed compensation."
As to the tenement-house sweat-shop, I am convinced that a very simple law, which ought to be passed by the next legislature, requiring every manufacturer, of any kind, to file with the inspector of factories a list of the names and addresses of the people who work for him, would work wonders.
But nowadays the city slave spends his week-days shut up in an office, poring over a ledger, or in a sweat-shop, chained to a sewing-machine. Obviously, therefore, the thing to do on the seventh day is to lure him into the open air, and persuade him to run and play. But do we do that, we human sheep?
You will find that they are not at all afraid of the religious taboos; they are afraid of the religious vote and even more they are afraid of the campaign contributions of sweat-shop manufacturers and landlords, who cannot see what would become of prosperity if the women of the slums were to cease to breed.
There was a guy by the name of Dainey who used to live somewhere on the East Side here, an' he used to work in some sweat-shop, an' he worked till he got pretty old, an' then his lungs, or something, went bad on him, an' he went broke. An' the doctor said he had to beat it out of here to a more salubrious climate. Some nut filled his ear full 'bout gold huntin' up in Alaska, an' he fell for it.
A great deal has been and is being constantly said about "sweat-shop" work and conditions. The writer has great sympathy with those who are overworked, but on the whole a greater sympathy for those who are under paid.
The unregulated private employment office, the padrone and the sweat-shop are the agencies who direct the newcomers to jobs, whether it be in the city or out in the country camp.
And these women arranged that they should go to the Magdalens of their city and teach them the error of their way and lead them gently into the treadmill of factory and sweat-shop to earn their daily bread and butter and olives. So in a holy band of six they sought the gilded haunt of sin and asked Madame R if they might talk for a while with her-er-young ladies.
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