Project Gutenberg 2010-10-12 Public domain in the USA. 116 Campbell, Helen 1839 1918 Campbell, Helen Stuart, Mrs. Weeks, Helen C. (Helen Campbell) Wheaton, Campbell Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives" by Helen Campbell is a social investigation written in the late 19th century. The volume is a detailed account that sheds light on the working conditions and struggles of women employed in various trades, particularly in New York City. Campbell aims to uncover the plight and systemic injustices faced by these working women, seeking to provide an understanding of their lives and the socioeconomic factors influencing their situation. The opening of the book sets the stage for Campbell's exploration by presenting a preface that explains her methodology, which includes personal research and interviews with workers. She introduces the stark realities of poverty that women face, outlining how many are forced to accept inadequate wages in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions due to a lack of options. Campbell emphasizes the importance of understanding these working conditions in order to initiate genuine change, framing the struggles of characters like Rose Haggerty, a young girl who assumes the weight of familial responsibilities amidst harsh employment practices that ultimately lead her to despair. The text presents a vivid cross-section of society where grinding poverty collides with the often invisible labor of women, setting a critical tone for the chapters to follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Women -- Employment Women -- Employment -- United States HD Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Gender & Sexuality Studies Browsing: Sociology 441629 441638 2024-09-14T10:06:48.081726 2023-09-15T05:19:52.569612 text/html text/html 453338 2021-01-07T01:43:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 163972 2021-01-07T01:43:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 243045 2024-09-14T10:06:55.611638 application/epub+zip 246554 2024-09-14T10:06:50.034757 application/epub+zip 246554 2024-09-14T10:06:48.958708 application/epub+zip 546272 2024-09-14T10:06:59.953629 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 508227 2024-09-14T10:06:54.747642 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 402373 2022-09-15T13:23:19.547723 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 399620 399417 2024-09-14T10:06:47.263736 2023-09-15T05:19:51.823636 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 399348 2021-01-07T01:43:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 154967 2021-01-07T01:43:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 399343 2021-01-07T01:43:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 154947 2021-01-07T01:43:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20743 2024-09-14T10:07:00.099618 application/rdf+xml 24956 2024-09-14T10:06:49.321679 image/jpeg 4584 2024-09-14T10:06:49.137672 image/jpeg 232242 2024-09-14T10:06:48.125714 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia