Capitalizing on Renewables for Oregon's Economy: Field Hearing before the Subcommittee on Trade, Tourism, and Economic Development of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

United States. Congress. Senate., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (66 p.))

Other Title:

Capitalizing on Renewables for Oregon's Economy

Place of Publication:

Miami : General Books LLC Sept. 2011

Summary:

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. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...and other household duties were disposed of after a 10-hour day of exhausting toil and a walk of 4 miles. The older women, from about 28 years and over, do not seem to care to go about in the evening, as the day's work calls for all their strength and vitality. The younger women, however, go to the dances, the 10,20, and 30 cent vaudeville, the skating rinks, the nickelodeons, and to the parks and the lakes in summer. Any expense incurred in a vacation period for car fare, etc., has been carefully reckoned. One store in St. Paul provides a complete lunch room for its employees. Saturday evening, when the store is kept open until 10 o'clock, the lunch room is open; otherwise only noon lunches are served. The employees generally avail themselves of this welfare feature. The average spent for lunches is cents. Two of the Minneapolis stores provide lunch rooms for their employees, and one has a popular-price lunch room, which the public patronizes, but which could not in any way be classified as welfare work. Several of the larger firms among the factories, mills, and miscellaneous industries in the two cities provide lunch rooms and luncheon equipment for their employees. Two firms provide complete lunch rooms, which are adequately equipped and the food so priced as to bring it within reach of all the girls there employed. One of the firms hires a woman, not to act as matron alone but to look out for the interests of the girls, to see that they are protected from any undue preference or prejudice on the part of the foremen, and to have a general eye to the physical and moral health of the women employees. This feature can not fail to affect the living conditions of the girls either adrift or at home. Two other firms, one in St. Paul and one...