Five Hundred Employments Adapted To Women

"The object of this work is to show women where the productive fields of labor are, and to enable every one to find the kind of employment best adapted to her tastes. It embraces the results of over three years' constant labor in perfecting its details. -- Miss Penny."--Title page.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... penman. Some never succeed. In stoning and frosting, girls sit. The finishers are men, and the stooping required sometimes produces consumption. So many gold pen cases are not used now as formerly--probably not more than one tenth as many. Gutta percha has become a substitute. N. employed women seven or eight years ago in polishing, stoning, and pointing pens, and paid $5 a week of ten hours a day. Manufacturers in Williamsburg, Mass., write: " We employ women to make gold pens, pen holders, and jewelry, and pay from $3 to $4 per week--some by the piece and some by the week. It requires from one to three years to learn, according to the part they do. They are paid small wages while learning. We wish honesty and ingenuity in our workers. The business is permanent. Work is given at all seasons of the year. The hands work eleven and a quarter hours per day. We employ from ten to twelve women, because they can do the work equally as well as men, at about one third the price. Half are Americans. N 0 other parts of the occupation are suitable for women than those in which we employ them. Help once settled in the country, if married, are likely to be permanent-in cities, vice versa, changing about. Our workmen have a fine reading room. Board, $1.50 for women, $2.50 for men." 248. watches. A Watch is said to consist of 992 pieces. We have seen it stated that two hundred persons are employed in the entire process of making a watch, and that, with the exception of the watch finishers (who put the parts together), not one of the workmen could perform any but his own specific part. In Switzerland, families, for generation after generation, devote themselves to making particular parts of watches. Women have proved their ability to execute...