Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands
… to the factory or send them to the union office to find work for them. They all seemed healthy, decent, well-spoken … already unemployed. Even when they succeeded in securing work and were not cheated out of part of their wages, they received only £1 for a full week's work, and as there was much slackness in the industry, a full …