"Sweating," Home and Factory System
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An early twentieth-century encyclopedia article describing the "sweating" or task system in the American ready-made clothing trade, in which work was contracted and subcontracted to small shops and home workers. It covers the task system's wage structure (operator, baster, finisher, presser, buttonhole maker), the growth of unreasonable daily tasks, and the role of immigrant labor in New York. It contrasts this with the subdivided factory ("Boston") system and the home system, which it says were replacing sweatshops.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1906
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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