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Sex in industry : a plea for the working-girl / by Azel Ames
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PREFACE.

Some two years since, having been commis­sioned by the chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor of this Commonwealth, to make certain inquiries as to the conditions of homes and employments of working-people whereby their health might be unfavorably affected, I had my attention called, while visiting a factory near my home, to the marvellous rapidity of the digital manipulations required by the processes of a light manufacture conducted by girls. A reflec­tion upon the possible physiological tendencies of such extreme celerity opened a wide door of inquisitive thought; and the interest thus awak­ened, heightened by the immediately subsequent appearance of Prof. Edward H. Clarkes Sex in Education, which contained much bearing directly upon the subject, stimulated a wider study of the true relations sex sustains to industry.

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