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Problems of Poverty

CHAPTER IV
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per week.

The hours of labour for sweating work appear to be from fifteen to eighteen per diem, and "greeners" not infrequently work eighteen to twenty hours a day.

Women, who are largely used in making "felt and carpet uppers," cannot, if they work their hardest, make more than 1s.3d.a day.

In the lowest class of work wages fall even lower.

Mr.Schloss gives the wages of five men working in a small workshop, whose average is less than 11s.


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