Excerpt from Licensed Workers in Industrial Home Work: In Massachusetts Analysis of Current Records Number Bureau of Research, Women's Educational and Industrial Union This report is presented under two sections. First, a brief summary of the extent of inspection, the size of the problems which the Board is forced to consider, and the expense of en forcing the law, both in letter and in spirit; second, an analysis of the information secured in the process of granting licenses, which throws light upon the entire vexed question by revealing the relation of home work to the industries, the conditions under which it is done, the reason why it is done, the need for its being done, and the results of its being done. The extent of the work accomplished by the department in performing these duties may be shown by the following state ments. 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.