Excerpt from Fourth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor, 1888: Working Women in Large Cities The facts which enter into this report have, in the main, been col lected by women, agents of the Department. The only exception in this respect has been for places in California and the information relat ing to prostitution. The result of the work of the agents must bear testimony to the efficiency of the women employed by the Department, and to the fact that they are capable of taking up difficult and labor ious work. They have stood on an equality in all respects with the male force of the Department, and have been compensated equally with them. It was considered entirely appropriate, in an investigation of the kind, that the main facts should be collected by women. The wis dom of this course has been thoroughly established. 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.