The Standard of Living Among the Industrial People of America
The book The Standard of Living Among the Industrial People of America was written by author Frank Hatch Streightoff Here you can read free online of The Standard of Living Among the Industrial People of America book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Standard of Living Among the Industrial People of America a good or bad book?
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249. ' New York Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1900, p. 68. * Report of the Industrial Commission, vol. xix, p. 733. ' Hayes, A. A. A., vol. xxvii, p. 496. ' Report of the Industrial Commission, vol. xix, p. 763. ' Letters from a Working Man, p. 152. Digitized by Microsoft® 126 THE STANDARD OF LIVING tendency to reject a man because of age is growing among employers, and, whether as a business policy it may be right or wrong, there is no doubt of its bringing the middle- aged man in ever increasin...g numbers face to face with the grim problem of how the necessaries of existence are to be provided for the remainder of his life." ^ "The average woman who earns her living as a domestic is commercially dead after she is forty-five years of age. There is no place for a man fifty years of age, if he is a common laborer, if he shows his age." ^ The testimony to this shortening of the trade life is universal; even hair dyes are frequently resorted to by desperate men who cannot postpone be- coming gray-headed.' This whole problem is fimdament- ally one of health; by long hours, mercilessly exacting machinery, severe competition, and unhygienic conditions of labor, men are prematurely aged; their nerves are quickly ruined.* As it is advantageous to individual em- ployers to profit from the labor of children so it is prob- ably a good "business" policy to use up workmen and quickly replace them with new, fresh hands.
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