The fact that those who work at shirt-making do not depend entirely on it for a livelihood, is an aggravation rather than an extenuation of the sweating character of this employment.
Sec.4.Some minor "Sweating" Trades .-- Mantle-making is also a woman's industry.

The wages are just sufficiently higher than in shirt-making to admit the introduction of the lowest grades of unsupported female workers.

From 1s.3d.to 1s.6d.

a day can be made at this work.
Furring employs large numbers of foreign males, and some thousands of both native and foreign females.

It is almost entirely conducted in small workshops, under the conduct of middlemen, who receive the expensive furs from manufacturers, and hire "hands" to sew and work them up.