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Women in the factory

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Holistic Healing

Women in the factory

Adelaide Mary Anderson and George Cave

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Adelaide Anderson walked the factory floor as one of the first women inspectors and reported what she found there. Her book exposes excessive hours, foul conditions and the appeals of the women who labored under them. A powerful record of the fight for industrial health and workers' welfare. Meet the inspectors who dragged the factory into the light.

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15 chapters

  1. 1WOMEN IN THE FACTORY AN ADMINISTRATIVE ADVENTURE, 1893 TO 1921
  2. 2FOREWORD
  3. 3AUTHOR’S PREFACE
  4. 4CONTENTS
  5. 5CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: HOW WOMEN INSPECTORS CAME, AND WHAT THEY CAME TO DO
  6. 6CHAPTER II THE WOMEN WORKERS AND THEIR APPEAL; EXCESSIVE HOURS, INSANITATION, AND OTHER UNCIVILISED CONDITIONS
  7. 7CHAPTER III WOMEN’S WAGES AND THE TRUCK ACTS; THE PIECEWORKER AND HER PAY
  8. 8CHAPTER IV DANGEROUS AND INJURIOUS PROCESSES; ACCIDENTS AND SAFETY
  9. 9CHAPTER V EMPLOYMENT OF MOTHERS; YOUNG WORKERS; CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
  10. 10CHAPTER VI THE LIFE OF THE INSPECTOR AND ITS INFLUENCE ON LEGISLATION; EXPERIENCES IN COURTS
  11. 11CHAPTER VII THE WAR AND WOMEN SUBSTITUTES; NEW LIGHT ON HOURS, LABOUR-SAVING, FATIGUE, FOOD, AND EFFICIENCY
  12. 12CHAPTER VIII FACTORY WELFARE AND ITS RECOGNITION BY PARLIAMENT; WORKS’ COMMITTEES AND WELFARE MANAGEMENT
  13. 13APPENDIX I DANGEROUS AND UNHEALTHY INDUSTRIES
  14. 14APPENDIX II TABLE OF REPORTED CASES OF INDUSTRIAL POISONING AND ANTHRAX (SECTION 73 OF THE FACTORY ACT, 1901).
  15. 15INDEX
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