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Author: Banks Louis Albert

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Originally published in 1892. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

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...moment, that it is necessary for the sewing-woman toreceive such wages as to compel her starvation, unless alms be given toher in her attic. In the discourse which is thus criticised. I showed plainly that theaprons for which the seamstress received, net, one cent for making, returned a profit of fifteen cents, on an investment of ten cents byher employer. Now, I do not admit that the rigors of competition are sogreat that it compels this manufacturer to make one hundred and fiftyper cent profit while this woman toils sixteen hours a day to makeforty-five cents. I showed that the women who make shirts made only fifty cents a day, and yet the proprietor made on every shirt twenty-two cents profit onan investment of twenty-eight cents. I do not admit that competition isso stern that it is necessary for this shirt manufacturer to makeseventy-eight per cent profit while the woman who works for him mustbeg assistance of the Provident Association, or see her children cryfor bread. Or, take...

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