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Report, Volume 45 Massachusetts. Department of Labor and Industries. Division of Statistics Visualizzazione completa - 1914 |
Report, Volume 36 Massachusetts. Department of Labor and Industries. Division of Statistics Visualizzazione completa - 1906 |
Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor Massachusetts. Dept. of Labor and Industries. Division of Statistics Visualizzazione completa - 1911 |
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amount AVERAGE DAY WAGES Average hours Average number Average wages better Blank Boston bushel cent clothing condition coöperative Cotton Mill deposits dinner dollars eleven hours employer employés employment England establishments expenses fact factory farm laborers farmers five foreign girls give hours of labor hours per day increase industry Irish labor per week less machine machinery Manufacturer Massachusetts mill months Nitro Glycerine number employed Number of depositors Number of Men Number of Native NUMBER OF PERSONS obtain OCCUPATION OFFICE operatives paid percentage PERSONS EMPLOYED pounds power of attorney production read nor write received reduction rent Report returns Saturday Savings Bank Shoe sickness Southbridge strikes SUBDIVISION TABLE tion Total number Total wages Totals and Averages town trade truck Truck System twelve visited wage-labor women Woolen workmen Young Persons
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Pagina 540 - The officers above named, in the report for 1871, recommended — " The authorization by law, with methods of carrying it into effect, of a thorough and exhaustive system of statistics, to be gathered by the parties employed in taking the next state census, in 1875...
Pagina 478 - I should find it difficult to resist the conclusion, that however the labourer has derived benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities, and from many inventions of common utility, he is much inferior in ability to support a family to his ancestors three or four centuries ago.
Pagina 435 - ... of our ability; therefore, be it Resolved, That we, the workingwomen of Lynn, known as Upper Fitters and Finishers of Boots and Shoes, do enter a most solemn protest against any reduction of wages, on any pretext whatever; and that we will not submit to any rules that do not equally affect our employers.
Pagina 294 - Humbly represent the subscribers, citizens of the town of Boston, that in their opinion an Institution, by which all classes of the community may be encouraged to the practice of frugality, and especially industrious mechanics, either journeymen or masters, seamen, laborers, and men of small capital, widows, and others, may receive from their savings of wages or profits, regularly deposited and systematically invested in public stocks or otherwise, a profit proportional to the success of the institution...
Pagina 477 - There is one very unpleasing remark which every one who attends to the subject of prices will be induced to make, that the labouring classes, especially those engaged in agriculture, were better provided with the means of subsistence in the reign of Edward III. or of Henry VI. than they are at present. In the fourteenth century, Sir John...
Pagina 436 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be given to each one of the committee, to be by them presented to each girl in every shop, and her signature thereon obtained, that she will adhere to the terms of the resolutions; and should anyone of the employees of the shop be reduced in her wages, or ill treated, we will desist from our work until she has obtained her rights.
Pagina 435 - We, the Workingwomen, in convention assembled, do accept the following resolutions, as an earnest expression of our sentiments; Whereas, we have long been sensible of the need of protecting our rights and privileges as free-born women, and are determined to defend them and our interests as workingwomen, to the fullest extent of our ability; therefore, be it Resolved, That we, the workingwomen of Lynn, known as Upper Fitters and Finishers of Boots and Shoes, do enter a most solemn protest against...
Pagina 299 - ... the country have been in excess of those of almost any former year, in New York to the extent of about $40,000,000, and in Massachusetts to nearly $24,000,000. It is obvious, therefore, on the very face of this statement, to use the words of the Governor of Massachusetts in his recent message, " that a large share of this increase is not the savings of labor," and that " each year shows more deposits by capitalists.
Pagina 435 - Resolved, that we, the free women of Lynn, will submit to no rule or set of rules that tend to degrade and enslave us. Resolved, That we will accept no terms whatever, either with regard to a reduction of prices, notices to quit, or forfeiture of wages. That while we utterly ignore the spirit of selfishness and illiberality which prompted the late action of our would-be oppressors, we will not hesitate to resist, in a proper manner, the unjust encroachments upon our rights. Resolved, that a copy...
Pagina 352 - ... unless such child shall have attended some public or private day school where instruction was given by a teacher qualified to instruct in...