. American cookery. groupsof departments—educational, social,and industrial. The first-mentioned group includes the Department of Re-search, the Vocational Training Depart-ment, the School of ,and the Appointment Bureau. TheUnions social work is represented bythe Social Service Department, com-prising an information bureau, roomregistry for securing assistance andemployment for untrained women; theLaw and Thrift Department; and thePublic Reference Library, specializingin women in industry. The industrialdepartments include four lunch rooms,a manufacturing plant for schoolluncheons
. American cookery. groupsof departments—educational, social,and industrial. The first-mentioned group includes the Department of Re-search, the Vocational Training Depart-ment, the School of ,and the Appointment Bureau. TheUnions social work is represented bythe Social Service Department, com-prising an information bureau, roomregistry for securing assistance andemployment for untrained women; theLaw and Thrift Department; and thePublic Reference Library, specializingin women in industry. The industrialdepartments include four lunch rooms,a manufacturing plant for schoolluncheons, food shop, food salesroom,candy kitchen, cake kitchen, handworkand childrens clothing shop, and hatand gown shop. The wide range of activities embracedcan be better understood from a de-scription of the actual work in some ofthe different departments. Perhaps theleast familiar to the public that dailypass the building at 264 Boylston Streetand pause to look at the temptingviands or the arts and crafts work dis-. HANDWORK SHOP OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN 189 1 --«-r- ^^SB^^B^B^pi if^VK#ji ^^^^^^^HlHjfe^^ l~^^^t^l^^H MEMBERS REST ROOM played in the show-case windows is theDepartment of Research. Yet its workis recognized by social experts through-out the country as a vital contributionto the study of women in industrial in 1905 as an attempt torouse public opinion and secure legis-lation for the protection of women em-ployed in factories in the state, it hasbecome a school for training investi-gators as well as one of the leadingagencies in the country for collectingdata regarding the conditions ofwomens work. Some of the investi-gations made by the department withinthe past few years are studies of whatconstitutes a living wage for womenworkers, early history of factory legis-lation in Massachusetts, child laborlaws and their enforcement, conditionsof womens work in factories, the reg-ulation of employment agencies, non-teaching vocations for trained women,and
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