Eighth Biennial Report Of The Bureau Of Labor Statistics Of Illinois 1894 Subjects Taxation Classic Reprint

Download or read book Eighth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of Illinois, 1894: Subjects: Taxation (Classic Reprint) written by Illinois Bureau Of Labor Statistics and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eighth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of Illinois, 1894: Subjects: Taxation This report was not made for a year Of famine, but for one Of the prosperous years following our recovery from the hard times of the late seventies. A much more extensive investigation, the results of which may be found in the report for 1834, exhibits no improvement. But the mechanics and laborers from whose experience these figures were Obtained, constitute as Mr. Lord remarks and as their occupations show, the more prosperous class Of the laborers that in common speech are distinguished as workingmen. The scale of wages and of living runs downward from them, not up ward. What then must be the condition of poorer classes? What that of the poorest workingmen? Only observation or experience can vividly answer; but some idea may be gathered from a con sideration of the condition of the working women of Chicago and the prevalence of the sweating system there, as exhibited in the report for 1892. Working women appear to receive an average of little more than $6 a week. Over 57 per cent. Of them receive less, their average being under $5. The average of those who get more than $6 is only $8. And among victims of the sweating system, of whom there are already at least ten thousand in Chicago, the investigation disclosed such typical examples as these. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.