To the public. Baltimore, May 10, 1830. : The undersigned, having received from a number of ladies of respectability and intelligence ... the following interesting statement, deem it right to present it to their fellow citizens. "The subscribers having carefully considered the case of females employed as seamstresses ... are convinced that the wages they receive for their labour are entirely inadequate for their support ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Patterson, William, 1752-1835.

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Pamphlets of the Mathew Carey Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--United States.

Women.

Women--Employment.

United States.

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Wages--Women--United States.

Wages.

Wages--Women.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (2 pages) ; 23 x 15 cm

Other Title:

Pamphlets of Mathew Carey. v. 3 no. 71 PU

Pamphlets of Mathew Carey. v. 6 no. 22 PU

Fingerprint:

a-it tyis behe tose (C) 1830 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Baltimore] : [publisher not identified], [1830]

Notes:

Signed on p. 2: William Patterson [and thirty-four others].

Followed by a "statement submitted for public consideration" on the subject of wages for female laborers.

Two states noted. In one the "statement submitted for public consideration" is unsigned. In the other, this statement is signed "M.C." [i.e., Mathew Carey].

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is v. 3 no. 71 in a collection of Mathew Carey Pamphlets bound together.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 is v. 6 no. 22 in a collection of Mathew Carey Pamphlets bound together.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints, 780

OCLC:

84065558