to 10s.

a day, or of becoming in his turn a sweater.
The general hand has no such hope.

The lowest kind of coat-making, however, is refused by the Jew contractor, and falls to Gentile women.
These women also undertake most of the low-class vest and trousers making, generally take their work direct from a wholesale house, and execute it at home, or in small workshops.

The price for this work is miserably low, partly by reason of the competition of provincial factories, partly for reasons to be discussed in a later chapter.

Women will work for twelve or fifteen hours a day throughout the week as "trousers finishers," for a net-earning of as little as 4s.