WOMEN'S NEW OCCUPATIONS.
In Scotland, women are now being employed in the Broxburn oil works for the first time, and arc receiving a three weeks' course of training in candle-making, after which it is said they will be paid piece rates on the same scale as the men. In the boot trade, which normally employs many women, they are now for the first time being employed as clickers. “Clicking” is the* cutting-out of boot and shoe uppers, and calls for more skill than any other process. As in the case of many other skilled trades, women are now doing, after a few weeks’ training, work hitherto onlydone by men after three or four years’ apprenticeship. With regard to baking, great opposition is being shown in Edinburgh by the operatives to the admission of female labour.
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White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 261, 19 March 1917, Page 6
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135WOMEN'S NEW OCCUPATIONS. White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 261, 19 March 1917, Page 6
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