The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . govern-ment departments and inter-department-al committees to induce employers toapply scientific and humane principlesto the allocation of workers and to themanagement of labor in war and civilemployments. The accompanying illustrations fromthe manual of the War Office showwomen engaged in occupations which itis recommended shall henceforth be con-sidered womens work throughout thecountry. Some of these occupations areobviously unsuitable and dangerous tothe health of women. That physicalfitness is a necessary consideration in se-lecting workers for any gi
The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . govern-ment departments and inter-department-al committees to induce employers toapply scientific and humane principlesto the allocation of workers and to themanagement of labor in war and civilemployments. The accompanying illustrations fromthe manual of the War Office showwomen engaged in occupations which itis recommended shall henceforth be con-sidered womens work throughout thecountry. Some of these occupations areobviously unsuitable and dangerous tothe health of women. That physicalfitness is a necessary consideration in se-lecting workers for any given job doesnot seem to have occurred to the WarOffice. It recommends, for instance, asa matter for general application, thatwives, sisters and daughters shall be in-duced to take up the work of the malemembers of the household to set themfree for military duty—an effort, appar-ently, to cut the ground from under anycause which may be shown before a tri-bunal why a male worker of militaryage is indispensable to the conduct of the. Pork butchers wife and daughter,with girl assistants, keep the businessgoing while he is at the front. Allof them together manage to dressfrom six to eight pigs a week. Ifthey are paid a living wage, porkmust be high. business of which he is a regular part. We have always been among thosewho have held that there is no physicalbarrier in the way of a great extension ofwomens work, says the London Nation(November 4, 1916). But we con-fess that this publication takes our breathaway. . There are photographs ofa woman stoker working at the furnacesof a large factory in South London, andothers of women loading, unloading andstacking pit props and coal, which seemto us cases for immediate investigationby Home Office inspectors. Surely, theWar Office does not give its official com-mendation to the employment of womenon such jobs as these. Since the beginning of the war, al-most a million women have been addedto the wage earners in industrial, com-mercial, p
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