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Excerpt from Women in the Bookbinding Trade
The bookbinding trade was chosen first for study because it is one of the most important trades for women in New York City, and also in many respects a typical one. As Miss Van Kleeck explains, it affords employment to every grade of woman worker from the skilled craftsman who does artistic binding by hand to the machine operator, the hand folder, the wrapper, and the errand girl. The competition in it between out going hand processes and incoming machine proc esses is incessant. In some branches work is regular; in others it is highly irregular, overtime and free days occurring in the same week. Finally, there is a union in the trade to which some of the women employes belong; while most of the women are unorganized and little impressed by the ad vantages of organization. Bookbinding in New York City thus presents in miniature most of the important problems which confront women wage earners.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The bookbinding trade was chosen first for study because it is one of the most important trades for women in New York City, and also in many respects a typical one. As Miss Van Kleeck explains, it affords employment to every grade of woman worker from the skilled craftsman who does artistic binding by hand to the machine operator, the hand folder, the wrapper, and the errand girl. The competition in it between out going hand processes and incoming machine proc esses is incessant. In some branches work is regular; in others it is highly irregular, overtime and free days occurring in the same week. Finally, there is a union in the trade to which some of the women employes belong; while most of the women are unorganized and little impressed by the ad vantages of organization. Bookbinding in New York City thus presents in miniature most of the important problems which confront women wage earners.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Mary van Kleeck
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780260750600
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 324
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Mary van Kleeck
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781332073245
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 326
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