The Standard of Living Among the Industrial People of America
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249.
' New York Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1900, p. 68.
* Report of the Industrial Commission, vol. xix, p. 733.
' Hayes, A. A. A., vol. xxvii, p. 496.
' Report of the Industrial Commission, vol. xix, p. 763.
' Letters from a Working Man, p. 152.
Digitized by Microsoft® 126 THE STANDARD OF LIVING tendency to reject a man because of age is growing among employers, and, whether as a business policy it may be right or wrong, there is no doubt of its bringing the middle- aged man in ever increasin...g numbers face to face with the grim problem of how the necessaries of existence are to be provided for the remainder of his life." ^ "The average woman who earns her living as a domestic is commercially dead after she is forty-five years of age. There is no place for a man fifty years of age, if he is a common laborer, if he shows his age." ^ The testimony to this shortening of the trade life is universal; even hair dyes are frequently resorted to by desperate men who cannot postpone be- coming gray-headed.' This whole problem is fimdament- ally one of health; by long hours, mercilessly exacting machinery, severe competition, and unhygienic conditions of labor, men are prematurely aged; their nerves are quickly ruined.* As it is advantageous to individual em- ployers to profit from the labor of children so it is prob- ably a good "business" policy to use up workmen and quickly replace them with new, fresh hands.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
249.
' New York Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1900, p. 68.
* Report of the Industrial Commission, vol. xix, p. 733.
' Hayes, A. A. A., vol. xxvii, p. 496.
' Report of the Industrial Commission, vol. xix, p. 763.
' Letters from a Working Man, p. 152.
Digitized by Microsoft® 126 THE STANDARD OF LIVING tendency to reject a man because of age is growing among employers, and, whether as a business policy it may be right or wrong, there is no doubt of its bringing the middle- aged man in ever increasin...g numbers face to face with the grim problem of how the necessaries of existence are to be provided for the remainder of his life." ^ "The average woman who earns her living as a domestic is commercially dead after she is forty-five years of age. There is no place for a man fifty years of age, if he is a common laborer, if he shows his age." ^ The testimony to this shortening of the trade life is universal; even hair dyes are frequently resorted to by desperate men who cannot postpone be- coming gray-headed.' This whole problem is fimdament- ally one of health; by long hours, mercilessly exacting machinery, severe competition, and unhygienic conditions of labor, men are prematurely aged; their nerves are quickly ruined.* As it is advantageous to individual em- ployers to profit from the labor of children so it is prob- ably a good "business" policy to use up workmen and quickly replace them with new, fresh hands.
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