Author: Marie L. Obenauer

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-24

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780331878097

Excerpt from Hours, Earnings, and Conditions of Labor of Women in Indiana Mercantile Establishments and Garment Factories Relations, being charged by Congress with the duty of making con structive recommendations bearing upon industrial problems, was in need of some further current information concerning the existing basis of fixing wages for women, as well as concerning other factors entering into the problem of women in industry. After a survey of the field it developed that the purposes of both the Commission and the Bureau of Labor Statistics could be served as well by choosing the garment factories and the mercantile establishments in Indiana. For study as by making investigations in any other State. The inyi tatien from the Indiana Commission on Working Women was there fore accepted. It is the purpose of the Federal agencies not only to avoid duplication, but to cooperate and Supplement the work of other official agencies wherever such cooperation and supplemental work are practicable and desirable. The principal advantage of cooperation lies in the greater uniform ity effected in methods of collecting and classifying data. When a. Number of kindred investigations in different sections of the country are conducted by several State and Federal agencies, the resulting, individual reports may be extremely valuable, but the cumulative effect is lost unless there is sufficient cooperation or similarity of method to insure a comparability of results. 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.