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Title: Working With the Working Woman

Author: Cornelia Stratton Parker

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WORKING WITH THE WORKING WOMAN

_By_
CORNELIA STRATTON PARKER
_Author of_ "AN AMERICAN IDYLL"

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
_MCMXXII_

WORKING WITH THE WORKING WOMAN

Copyright, 1922, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION vii

I. NO. 1075 PACKS CHOCOLATES 1

II. 286 ON BRASS 42

III. 195 IRONS "FAMILY" 75

IV. IN A DRESS FACTORY 109

V. NO. 536 TICKETS PILLOW CASES 137

VI. NO. 1470, "PANTRY GIRL" 173

CONCLUSION 226

INTRODUCTION

The number of books on the labor problem is indeed legion. The tragedy
of the literature on any dynamic subject is that most of it is written
by people who have time to do little else. Perhaps the best books on
many subjects will never be written because those folk, who would be
most competent to do the writing, through their vital connection with
the problem at hand, never find the spare minutes to put their
findings down on paper.

There could be no more dynamic subject than labor, since labor is
nothing less than human beings, and what is more dynamic than human
beings? It is, therefore, the last subject in the world to be
a