Industrial Women, 1760–1914

Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor of British History, emerita, University of Southern Denmark, Visiting Professor, University of Turku, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

• Volume III: The Industrial Home and EducationList of ImagesAcknowledgementsGeneral IntroductionIntroduction to Volume III: The Industrial Home and EducationPart 1. Domestic Responsibilities1. Priscilla Wakefield, Reflections on the present condition of the female sex; with suggestions for its improvement, 1798.2. Robert Acklom Ingram, ‘On Industry Schools for Girls’, An Essay on the Importance of Schools of Industry (R. Exton, 1800), 3–11, 13–20, 22–28, 37.3. Nassau William Senior and William Chadwick on the Impact of Poor Relief on Domestic Responsibilities, Poor Law Commissioners’ Report of 1834. Copy of the Report made in 1834 by the Commissioners for Inquiring into the Administration and Practical Operation of the Poor Laws. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty (B. Fellows, 1834), 50–52, 174–75.4. Anna Jameson, ‘On Neglect of Female Education in Domestic Responsibilities’, Memoirs and Essays Illustrative of Art, Literature, and Social Morals (Richard Bentley, 1846), 220–25.5. Madame Blanc [Thérèse Bentzon], ‘Domestic Life’, Condition of Women in the United States, trans, Abby Langdon Alger (Roberts Brothers, 1895), 259 –61.6. John Duguid Milne, ‘Practical Considerations on Women and Industry’, The Industrial and social condition of women in the Middle and Lower Ranks (Chapman and Hall, 1857), 250–64, 324–340.7. Harriett Martineau, ‘Making Industrial Workers and Wives from “Female Industry”’, Edinburgh Review 222 (April 1859), 324–25.8. Friedrich Zahn, ‘Woman in Industrial Life of the Principal Civilized Nations— A Social, Demographic, Hygienic Study’, in Transactions of the fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, Washington, September 23-28, 1912, (Washington, D.C., International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, 1913), 321–29.Part 2. Home Life9. Sarah Trimmer, ‘On Poor Women in Rural Industry’, The Economy of Charity (London, 1801), 111–17.10. Peter Gaskell, ‘Temperature and Manners on Physical Development’, The Manufacturing Population of England (Baldwin and Cradock, 1833), 68–86.11. ‘Working-Class Housewives’, Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers, Factories Inquiry Commission. First Report of the Central Board of His Majesty s Commissioners appointed to collect Information in the Manufacturing Districts, as to the Employment of Children in Factories, and as to the Propriety and Means of Curtailing the Hours of their Labour: with Minutes of Evidence, and Reports by the District Commissioners, 1833, XX, D1 39-41.12. Frédéric Le Play, The Lingère of Lille Les Ouvrières Européens [The workers of Europe], 2nd edition, tome 6; Les Ouvriéries de l’Occident [The workers of the West] (Paris, 1868), 303–30613. Dr Louis René Villermé, on Sample Cloth Workers’ Households in France, Tableau de l’état physique et moral des ouvriers employés dans les manufactures de coton, de laine et de soie [Table of the physical and moral state of workers employed in cotton, wool and silk factories] (J. Renouard (1840), 61–64, 80–86.14. Edwin Chadwick, Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1842), 69–72, 137–42, 433–3415 H.R.M., ‘Introduction’ to Economic Position of Women in the United States, Proceedings of The Academy of Political Science (Columbia University, 1910), 5-1016. Maud Pember Reeves, ‘Married Women’s Work in Lambeth’, Round about a Pound a Week (G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1913), 21–90, 151–64.Part 3. Health and Well-Being17. Lord Ashley, ‘On the Effect of Factory Labour on Women’, Top , Hours of Labour in Factories, House in Committee on the Factories Bill. HC Deb 15 March 1844 vol 73 cc1073-110118. John O. Green, The factory system, in its hygienic relations: an address, delivered at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, May, 27, 1846, 9–22.19. Friedrich Engels, On the Consequences of Industrial Work on Families, 1844, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844. Translated: Florence Kelley (George Allen and Unwin, 1892), 108–109, 141–50, 199–200, 206–207.20. Agnes Amy Bulley and Margaret Whitley, Infant Mortality in ‘Influence of Occupation on Health’, Women’s work (Methuen, 1894), 103-104, 140-49.21. Clara E. Collet, On Infant Mortality and Women’s Work, ‘The Collection and Utilisation of Official Statistics Bearing on the Extent and Effects of the Industrial Employment of Women’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 61, No. 2 (June, 1898): 230-242.22. Florence Kelley, ‘Married Women in Industry’, Economic Conditions of Women in the United States, Proceedings of The Academy of Political Science. (Columbia University, 1910), 90–96.23. Maud Pember Reeves, Maternity: Letters from Working-Women, Collected by The Women’s Co-Operative Guild (G. Bell and Sons, 1915).24. Clementina Black, ‘Introduction’, Married Women’s Work, being the report of an enquiry undertaken by the Women’s Industrial Council, (G. Bell and Sons, 1915), 1–15.25. S. Newcome Fox, ‘Liverpool’, in Clementina Black, Married Women's Work, being the report of an enquiry undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council (G. Bell and Sons, 1915), 178–186.26. Isabel Basnett, ‘Glasgow’, in Clementina Black, Married Women's Work, being the report of an enquiry undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council (G. Bell and Sons, 1915), 219–21.Part 4. Housing and Living Conditions27. G. S. Kenrick, ‘Statistics of the Population in the Parish of Trevethin (Pontypool) and at the Neighbouring Works of Blaenavon in Monmouthshire, Chiefly Employed in the Iron Trade, and Inhabiting Part of the District Recently Distributed’, Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Jan. 1841): 366–69, 375.28. A Sanitary Remonstrance, Letter to the Editor, The Times, Thursday 5 July 1849.29. Our Sanitary Remonstrants, A Response from the Times, The Times, Monday 9 July 1849.30. Samuel Gompers, ‘Tenement House Cigar Manufacture’, New Yorker Volkszeitung, October 31, 1881.31. Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York with Illustrations Chiefly from Photographs Taken by the Author (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890), 25–39, 61–92.32. Jane Addams, ‘The Housing Problem in Chicago’, American Academy of Political and Social Science, Annals 20 (1902 Jul): 99-107.33. Caroline Bartlett Crane, A Sanitary Survey of Rochester, New York (1911), 63-6, 76-87.34. Frank Hatch Streightoff, ‘The Standard of Living Among the Industrial People of America’, Hart, Schaffner & Marx Prize Essays, VIII. (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), 69–85.Part 5. Charity35. ‘Dedication of the Five Points Mission House’, New-York Daily Times, June 18, 1853.36. ‘Peabody Housing’, Illustrated London News, 27 March, 1869.37. Octavia Hill, ‘Cottage Property in London’, Homes of the London Poor, No. 8. State Charities Aid Association (New York, 1875), 5-14.38. Octavia Hill, ‘Organized Work Among the Poor, Suggestions Founded on Four Years’ Management of a London Court., July 1869’, Homes of the London Poor, No. 8. State Charities Aid Association (New York, 1875), 15–30.39. Jane Addams, ‘The Subtle Problems of Charity’, Atlantic Monthly, 82 (Feb. 1899): 163-78.40. Jane Addams, ‘Sees Evil in Tenements’, Chicago Daily Tribune, (May 30, 1901), 2.Part 6. Lodging41. Mary Merryweather, Experience of factory life, being a record of fourteen years’ work at Mr. Courtauld’s silk mill at Halstead, in Essex (E. Faithfull, 1862), 43–49.42. John Avery, ‘Regulations for the Boarding-Houses of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company’, Handbook for the Visitor to Lowell (D. Bixby Lowell and Company 1848), 45–46.43. Announcement of New Boarding House. Woodberry Cotton Factory, ‘Local Matters’, The Sun (Baltimore), September 18, 1873, iss. 107, vol. LXXIII, 3.44. Lowell Female Labor Reform Association, Factory Tracts No. 2, 184545. Madame Blanc, ‘Homes and Clubs for Working–Women’, Condition of Women in the United States, trans, Abby Langdon Alger (Roberts Brothers, 1895), 242–54.46. Frank Hatch Streightoff, On Lodging, in The Standard of Living Among the Industrial People of America, Hart, Schafner & Marx Prize Essays, VIII. (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), 78–79.47. Mrs John Van Vorst, ‘In a Pittsburgh Factory’, in Mrs John Van Horst and Marie Van Vorst, The Woman Who Toils, Being the experiences of Two Ladies as Factory girls (Doubleday and Page, Co., 1903), 28–30.48. Marie Van Horst, ‘Lodgings,’ in Marie Van Horst and Mrs John Van Horst, The Woman Who Toils, Being the experiences of Two Ladies as Factory girls (Doubleday and Page, Co., 1903), 222–26.Part 7. Industrial Education49. C. L. Brace, Address on Industrial Schools to the Teachers of the Schools, November 13, 1868, (Press of Wynkoop and Hallenbreck, 1868), New York, 2–13.50. Mary A. Livermore (Mary Ashton), What shall we do with our daughters?: superfluous women, and other lectures (Lee and Shepard, 1883), 82–85; 98–111.51. Rev. A. D. Mayo, Industrial Education in the South, Bureau of Education, Circular of Information No. 5, 1888 (GPO, 1888), 19, 31, 38–42.52. Alice P. Barrows, ‘The Training of Millinery Workers’, Economic Position of Women, Committee on Women’s Work, Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York (Columbia University, 1910), 40–41, 46–51.53. Florence M. Marshall, ‘Industrial Training for Women. A Preliminary Study’, Bulletin / National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, no. 4, 1909, 5-13.54. Florence M. Marshall, ‘The Industrial Training of Women’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 33, No. 1, Industrial Education (Jan., 1909), 119-26.BibliographyIndex