Female Labor.
As a bearing on the subject of an article published by us a few days ago we quote from the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald on the strike of tailoresses in Melbourne :—Possibly out of this strike will come a discussion of the whole question of the employment of young women. It is quite certain that a totally mistaken estimate has been formed by these latter of their relation to society, and'-that domestic servitude is looked upon by them as degrading. If the only bad result of this error was the inconve niene'e it occasions to those who keep servants, it might be got over, but there is the much more serious outcome of utterly unsdomeslicated wives and mothers. The homes of the class to which these girls belong are depressing in their comfortlessness. It is not the comfort leesness of poverty, but of ignorance of what should make a house bright and cheery. They are untidy and slatternly, and the untidiness and slatternliness do not appear to produce any feeling of dissatisfaction on the minds of those who live in their midst. The result of homos such as these ia the larrikin of both sexes, for although familiarity with domestic nnlovelinesa may cause no apparent discontent, it offers no attraction. The con sequence is that the young people who live In such homes get out into the streets as much as they can of an evening, and Vre know very well what this facility of j^fercourse has led to. The ideal home--1:4-of the well-to-do working man has no ■ existence in this city."
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4406, 16 February 1883, Page 3
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267Female Labor. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4406, 16 February 1883, Page 3
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