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Title: The Survey October 1916-March 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries

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menace. The only ones to whom the night shifts seemed a bonanzawere married women who wanted to take advantage of thechance to earn good pay in the shops, as the cartridge fac-tories were usually called, but who had homes and familieswhich needed their care in the daytime. Often the house-hold duties are neglected, for several of the hours of theday must necessarily go toward an effort to sleep. Some-times older children have to bear the brunt of the work;it home and take care of the younger children besides. Onelittle girl of eleven whose mother worked on an all-nightshift swept the rooms, washed the dishes and took charge ofthree younger children, including a baby of two years, whilethe mother slept. In spite of the industry of the young care-taker, the house was dirty and the children sickly-looking andpeevish. Occasionally more unusual domestic arrangements wereevolved. In one case, that of a large family consisting of aman and his wife, their four children, his widowed sister-in-
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VARIOUS TYPES OF COMPANY HOUSES To provide for its increased labor force the Remington company has erected houses for families. Dormitories for girls have been begun but not completed THE SURVEY EOR JANUARY 6, 1917 381 law, the latters three-year-old son, and a man lodger, thecare of the house was divided between the two women. Thewife worked in the factory from three in the afternoon untileleven at night, and the sister-in-laws factory hours werefrom seven in the morning until three. This arrangementleft one or the other of them at home all of the time to getthe meals and take care of the children, and they could meetat the factory at three oclock and talk over family plans for afew hurried minutes. Such a routine is possible only in afamily in which some kind of communal domestic arrange-ments are in force, and illustrates the abnormal character ofnight work for women. The foreign-born women, like the wives with home respon-sibilities, usually had fewer occupational openings than si

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