Protective Labor Legislation: With Special Reference to Women in the State of New YorkColumbia University, 1925 - 463 pages |
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... tion to that of yesterday when woman's work was confined to her home or when her presence in industry was viewed as an emergency measure , a temporary result of the introduc- tion of machinery . This study attempts , therefore , to ...
... tion to that of yesterday when woman's work was confined to her home or when her presence in industry was viewed as an emergency measure , a temporary result of the introduc- tion of machinery . This study attempts , therefore , to ...
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... tion to workmen for industrial accidents , and the daily hours of labor are regulated for large groups of employees such as those in public service and in hazardous industries . This is to say nothing of the mass of codified and ...
... tion to workmen for industrial accidents , and the daily hours of labor are regulated for large groups of employees such as those in public service and in hazardous industries . This is to say nothing of the mass of codified and ...
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... tion . Comparing these figures with previous census data , the facts are as follows : Number women employed Per cent of females 10 years of age and over Per cent of gainfully employed population 10 years of age and over 1880 1890 1900 ...
... tion . Comparing these figures with previous census data , the facts are as follows : Number women employed Per cent of females 10 years of age and over Per cent of gainfully employed population 10 years of age and over 1880 1890 1900 ...
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... tion for a broader interpretation of the constitution , and have been met on every hand by the claims of the con- servatives . TENEMENT HOUSE LABOR The act of the New York State legislature in 1883 prohi- biting tenement house cigar ...
... tion for a broader interpretation of the constitution , and have been met on every hand by the claims of the con- servatives . TENEMENT HOUSE LABOR The act of the New York State legislature in 1883 prohi- biting tenement house cigar ...
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... tion of secular business on Sunday is advocated on the ground that by it the general welfare is advanced , labor protected and the moral and physical well - being of society promoted . For the New York court in respect to the " Barber's ...
... tion of secular business on Sunday is advocated on the ground that by it the general welfare is advanced , labor protected and the moral and physical well - being of society promoted . For the New York court in respect to the " Barber's ...
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Page 65 - That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious.
Page 36 - But the fact that both parties are of full age, and competent to contract, does not necessarily deprive the state of the power to interfere, where the parties do not stand upon an equality, or where the public health demands that one party to the contract shall be protected against himself.
Page 66 - The limitations which this statute places upon her contractual powers, upon her right to agree with her employer as to the time she shall labor, are not imposed solely for her benefit, but also largely for the benefit of all.
Page 72 - No minor under the age of eighteen years, and no female shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any factory in this state before six o'clock in the morning, or after nine o'clock in the evening of any day...
Page 70 - is free to recognize degrees of harm and it may confine its restrictions to those classes of cases where the need is deemed to be clearest.
Page 35 - The enactment does not profess to limit the hours of all workmen, but merely those who are employed in underground mines, or in the smelting, reduction, or refining of ores or metals. These employments when too long pursued the legislature has judged to be detrimental to the health of the employees, and, so long as there are reasonable grounds for believing that this is so, its decision upon this subject cannot be reviewed by the Federal courts.
Page 44 - I think that the word liberty in the Fourteenth Amendment is perverted when it is held to prevent the natural outcome of a dominant opinion, unless it can be said that a rational and fair man necessarily would admit that the statute proposed would infringe fundamental principles as they have been 22 understood by the traditions of our people and our law.
Page 21 - Under the powers inherent in every sovereignty, a government may regulate the conduct of its citizens toward each other, and, when necessary for the public good, the manner in which each shall use his own property.
Page 65 - This is especially true when the burdens of motherhood are upon her. Even when they are not, by abundant testimony of the medical fraternity continuance for a long time on her feet at work, repeating this from day to day, tends to injurious effects upon the body, and as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well-being of woman becomes an object of public interest and care in order to preserve the strength and vigor of the race.
Page 36 - The legislature has also recognized the fact, which the experience of legislators in many States has corroborated, that the proprietors of these establishments and their operatives do not stand upon an equality, and that their interests are, to a certain extent, conflicting.