Boot-upper making: Woman sitting at a sewing machine at home, machining leather boot uppers. 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

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