. Making both ends meet : the income and outlay of New York working girls. Acme Library Card Po I;t3; ;t^s;.!;si iiti?m mi m WSi ?l!?fr il m. Photograph by Lewis Hine PREFACE This book is composed of the economic records ofself-supporting women living away from home inNew York. Their chronicles were given to theNational Consumers League simply as a testimonyto truth; and it is simply as a testimony to truththat these narratives are reprinted here. The Leagues inquiry was initiated because, threeyears ago in the study of the establishment of aminimum wage, only very little information wasobtain
. Making both ends meet : the income and outlay of New York working girls. Acme Library Card Po I;t3; ;t^s;.!;si iiti?m mi m WSi ?l!?fr il m. Photograph by Lewis Hine PREFACE This book is composed of the economic records ofself-supporting women living away from home inNew York. Their chronicles were given to theNational Consumers League simply as a testimonyto truth; and it is simply as a testimony to truththat these narratives are reprinted here. The Leagues inquiry was initiated because, threeyears ago in the study of the establishment of aminimum wage, only very little information wasobtainable as to the relation between the income andthe outlay of self-supporting women workers. Theinquiry was conducted for a year and a half byMrs. Sue Ainslie Clark, who obtained the workersbudgets as they were available from young womeninterviewed in their rooms, boarding places, andhotels, and at night schools and clubs. After had collected and written these accounts, Isupplemented them further in the same manner ; andrearranged them in a series of articles for Mr. S. The budgets fell naturally into certainindustrimakingbothendsme00claruoft
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