Racquet ball covering: woman working at a table. This is one of a series of images of homeworkers published as postcards by 'The Daily News' to highlight exploitative "sweated trades" in 1906, as part of the newspaper's campaign for the introduction of a minimum wage. This photograph was taken at the newspaper's Sweated Industries exhibition at Queen's Hall, London, which included low paid workers as 'exhibits'

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