Prisoners of Poverty
Abroad.
 
By HELEN CAMPBELL,
AUTHOR OF "PRISONERS OF POVERTY," "THE WHAT-TO-DO-CLUB,"
"MRS. HERNDON'S INCOME," "MISS MELINDA'S OPPORTUNITY,"
"ROGER BERKELEY'S PROBATION."
 
BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1889.
 
Copyright, 1889,
By Helen Campbell.
 
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
 
"But laying hands on another
To coin his labor and sweat,
He goes in pawn to his victim
For eternal years in debt."
 
 
TO
F. W. P.
THE FRIEND IN WHOM JUSTICE AND TRUTH ARE SO DEEPLY
IMPLANTED THAT BOTH ARE INSTINCTS,
AND WHOSE MANHOOD HOLDS THE PROMISE OF WORK THAT
WILL GO FAR TOWARD FULFILLING THE DEEPEST
WISH OF THE GENERATION TO WHICH
THE MAKER OF THESE
PAGES BELONGS.
 
[Pg iii]
PREFACE.
The studies which follow, the result of fifteen months' observationabroad, deal directly with the workers in all trades open to women,though, from causes explained in the opening chapter, less from the sideof actual figures than the preceding volume, the material for which wasgathered in New York. But as months have gone on, it has become plainthat many minds are also at work, the majority on the statistical sideof the question, and that the ethical one is that which demands no lessattention. Both are essential to understanding and to effort in anypractical direction, and this is recognized more and more asorganization brings together for consultation the women who, having[Pg iv]long felt deeply, are now learning to think and act effectually. Thesepages are for them, and mean simply another side-light on the laborquestion,—the question in which all other modern problems are tangled,and whose solving waits only the larger light whose first gleams arealready plain to see.
HELEN CAMPBELL.
Heidelberg, Germany,
    October, 1888.
[Pg v]
CONTENTS.
  • CHAPTER
  •       I.  Both Sides of the Sea
  •      II.  In Trafalgar Square
  •     III.  The Sweating System in General
  •      IV.  Among the Sweaters
  •       V.  Child of the East End
  •      VI.  Among the Dressmakers
  •     VII.  Nelly, a West End Milliner's Apprentice
  •    VIII.  London Shirt Makers
  • ...
                        
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