Download or read book Earnings and Working Conditions of Women Employed in Power Laundries in Greater New York and Westchester County in 1931 Compared with Those of 1929 written by New York (State). Division of Women in Industry and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report of the Industrial Commissioner to the Laundry Minimum Wage Board Relating to Wages and Other Conditions of Employment of Women and Minors in the Laundry Industry New York State written by New York (State). Department of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survey of the Laundry Industry written by United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earnings and Working Conditions of Women Employed in Power Laundries in Greater New York and Westchester County written by New York (State). Bureau of Women in Industry and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Condition of Woman and Child Wage Earners in the United States Vol 12 of 19 written by Charles P. Neill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on Condition of Woman and Child Wage-Earners in the United States, Vol. 12 of 19: Employment of Women in Laundries For the purpose of studying the working conditions of women and girls employed in laundries and the effect Of the work and the condi tions surrounding it upon the health of the employees, an investiga tion was made of the laundries in Chicago, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and in Rockford, III. A large number Of representa tive laundries were visited, and a considerable number of the women employed were interviewed by a physician. There are in these cities approximately American and Chinese laundries. The latter are largely hand laundries. Of the American laundries, about one-sixth are motor laundries and the rest hand laundries. In Chicago the motor laundries largely outnumber the hand laundries, but in the other cities included in the investiga tion the reverse is true. A study Of the organization and Operation of steam laundries em ploying a considerable force of women requires attention to three important considerations: General conditions of the workrooms in the laundries, the hours of labor, and the effect of the employment on the women employees. Recent improvements in laundry machinery have considerably lightened the work in certain occupations where formerly manual labor was almost exclusively employed. The advances which have been made enable laundry managers to make a more even distribution of their hours of labor and to follow more closely a definite schedule. By increasing their capital and equipping their plants with the most modern devices some of the laundries have abolished much Of the irregularity in hours Of labor, which has been characteristic Of laun dry work. But the old method Of Operation has persisted in many Of the smaller laundries, though recent competition as well as pressure from the employees has wrought changes which have placed the small laundry upon a better plane Of work. In the investigation of the working and health conditions of women and girls employed in laundries a general survey Of the industry and its occupations was found necessary. For this pur pose 315 laundries were visited in Chicago, New York, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia. These laundries employed a total of persons. 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.
Download or read book Wages and Hours in Laundries 1937 to 1945 New York State written by New York (State). Division of Industrial Relations, Women in Industry, and Minimum Wage and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HOURS AND EARNINGS OF WOMEN EMPLOYED IN POWER LAUNDRIES IN NEW YORK STATE written by NEW YORK. DEPT. OF LABOR. BUREAU OF STATISTICS AND INFORMATION. and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Living Downtown written by Paul E. Groth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.
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Download or read book The Power Broker written by Robert A. Caro and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1974-07-12 with total page 1337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses—and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller. But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man—an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches—and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear—his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals; and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough"—a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses—an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time—without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system. Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars—he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder. This is how he built and dominated New York—before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done.
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