Clothing of all orders pays as little as possible, the best workwomenoften making not over $2.
The wages of workwomen for the entire year run from $3.
At Weyman's restaurant I went in with my fellow workwomen and men.
The workmen and workwomen in whom discontent has bred the disease of riot, the abnormality, the abortion known as Anarchy, Socialism.
Ef you don't draw that loop up clever and tight, you don't get the quilting, and the quilting's the feature that none of the workwomen in West London can master.
Madame," said Patty, "I am inexperienced in the matter of wages, but I feel sure that you either employ inferior workwomen or that you underpay them.
I will call our financial account even, but if any of your workwomen can trim hats that you like as well as those that I trimmed, I trust you will give them the salary you offered me.
Throughout the reports sent in, it is most interesting to note how strongly the sense of feminine respectability opposes their fellow workwomen working after marriage, "unless they have been unfortunate in their husbands.
The following tables of wages paid to the workwomen as described, form, we believe, a unique record in wages statistics.
She passed crowds of workwomen with little parcels in their hands and children who had been sent to the baker's, carrying four-pound loaves of bread as tall as themselves, which looked like shining brown dolls.
The workwomen laughed and thought it a good joke to ask if he were in love.
The workwomen ate their breakfast on their knees; they were in no hurry, either, to return to their work, when suddenly Leonie uttered a low hiss, and like magic each girl was busy.
The other workwomen Madeleine had selected herself.
It is now a favor for her to receive any new customers, and I believe she has some thirty or forty workwomen in her employment.
But other documents show them as benefiting by humane measures which the workwomenof to-day might envy them.
One of the workwomen offered to accompany her; she declined, but begged her to go instead for the midwife, close by, in the Rue de la Charbonniere.
When you give even a dish-cloth to one of your workwomen I detect it at once.
The workwomen tried to joke with him to cheer him up, saying he was worrying over his love affairs, but he scarcely listened to them before he fell back into his habitual attitude of meditative melancholy.
On the Saturday, whilst the workwomen hurried with their work, there was a long discussion in the shop with the view of finally deciding upon what the feast should consist of.
The workwomen never touch them and I assure you I take great pains.
On these occasions, when the workwomen had finished their lunch, they would do a little ironing whilst waiting for the coffee.
A sighted brushmaker employing a hundred workwomen states that she must be a very good workwoman who can earn six shillings a week at eight hours a day.
One of the first workwomen was Martha Trant, subsequently employed for more than twenty years.
The tradesmen and workmen and workwomen in England were driven crazy in their efforts to carry out the ideas and commands of their employers.
The workwomen who had now taken up their abode at the Grange were both efficient and clever.
If you can get in a couple of good workwomen to help us, the dresses can easily be made at home," exclaimed Annie, her eyes sparkling.
Such is the bitter cry of the workwomenin East London.
The woes of the East End workwomen form no new theme.
The workwomen were now her friends--her trusted friends.
Let people only know that we have started; that we are a body of workwomen governing ourselves, and working for ourselves.
To live here as a workwoman among other workwomen is, at least, to avoid the danger of being flattered, deceived, and paid court to.
Here we are all alike--workmen andworkwomen together.
It is most assuredly not the case in thousands of instances that "there are no good workwomen out of work, or earning low wages," nor that "those who cannot get good wages are women who have spent their prime in idleness .
As to the milliners and tailors, my wife has the same experience as Mrs. Carlyle, that there are no goodworkwomen out of work, or earning low wages.
The workmen and workwomen come and go in the mill, in their daily round of duty, as they did when Phipps, and the gray trotters, and the great proprietor were daily visions of the streets.
But first, we must arrange a reduced scale of prices, and then bring our whole tribe of workwomen and others down to it at once.
And it happened just as they said--the poor workwomen had to submit.
Well," ha continued, "I think we had better put the screws on to our workwomen and journeymen at once.
The workmen andworkwomen left together shake hands all round without any particular courtesy or cordiality.
The small remuneration which these workwomen receive keeps them living from hand to mouth, so that, in case of sickness, or scarcity of work, they are sometimes left literally without a crust.
If those who have clothing made for the men of the army and navy would pay good prices to men of standing, that pay their workwomen well, we think some good might be done.
Most of ourworkwomen are Americans, and live with parents or relatives.
Aside from the prices of board for workwomen as mentioned in different parts of this work, I have intelligence from employers in one hundred and fifteen towns and cities of the Eastern States, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
Ought not employers and workwomen to consider this subject, since it undoubtedly degrades a female, even in her own estimation, as in that of others, to be habitually in what is mildly qualified "deshabille?
Workwomen are more apt to get in trouble among themselves, where many are employed, and are more difficult to control.
Our workwomen are mostly foreigners--Scotch, English, and some Irish.
Good boarding houses for workwomen are scarce in all large cities, particularly New York.
I learn from one employer that one of his workwomen reads aloud to the others while at work.
In New York, I have heard the opinion expressed that there are in that city fifteen foreign workwomen where there is one American.
The earnings of the workwomen vary according to their skill, diligence, and the number of hours spent at work.
Ordinary female hands are paid about one half as much as men of the same stamp; best workwomen about two thirds of same grade of men.
He will not use machines for cutting out and sewing, as it would throw many of his workwomen out of employment.
Have not the majority of workwomen some one dependent upon them, even with their scanty wages?
There is no surplus of workwomen in this branch of labor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "workwomen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
