Eight Hours for Women Employed in the District of Columbia

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - 172 halaman
 

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Halaman 10 - The state still retains an interest in his welfare, however reckless he may be. The whole is no greater than the sum of all the parts, and when the individual health, safety, and welfare are sacrificed or neglected the state must suffer.
Halaman 22 - Agricultural Pursuits ; Professional Service ; Domestic and Personal Service ; Trade and Transportation...
Halaman 9 - ... engage in ordinary employments more than eight hours per day without injury to their health, it does not follow that labor for the same length of time is innocuous when carried on beneath the surface of the earth, where the operative is deprived of fresh air and sunlight, and is frequently subjected to foul atmosphere and a very high temperature, or to the influence of noxious gases, generated by the processes of refining or smelting.
Halaman 15 - ... establishment, ^shall post and keep posted, in a conspicuous place in every room where such help is "employed, a printed notice stating the number of hours...
Halaman 11 - State, as parens patriae, to restrict, or to regulate, the labor and employment of children is unquestionable, but an adult female is not to be regarded as a ward of the State, or in any other light than the man is regarded, when the question relates to the business pursuit or calling.
Halaman 10 - ... her physical structure and a proper discharge of her maternal functions— having in view not merely her own health, but the well-being of the race— justify legislation to protect her from the greed as well as the passion of man.
Halaman 15 - ... females are required or permitted to work on each day of the week, the hours of beginning and stopping such work, and the hours of beginning and ending the recess allowed for meals. The printed form of such notice shall be furnished by the inspectors authorized by this act.
Halaman 15 - ... and the employment of any such person for a longer time in any day than that so stated shall be deemed a violation of this section...
Halaman 33 - This cost system extends back to the time when the day was 10 hours, and it shows that the same man under identically the same conditions, accomplished more, of exactly the same kind of work when he was working 9 hours, than he did when he was working 10 hours, and again when the hours were reduced to 8 hours this same man accomplished still more in an 8-hour day than he did in a 9-hour day, or a considerable amount more than he did when the day was 10 hours long.
Halaman 11 - It is known to all men (and what we know as men we can not profess to be ignorant of as judges), "that woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a great disadvantage in the battle of life; that while a man can work for more than ten hours a day without injury to himself, a woman, especially when the burdens of motherhood are upon her, cannot; that while...

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