Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fifty-First Congress, 1890-'91, Vol. 14 of 16: With Index The wages of an ordinary workman in the general trades are from 60 cents to $1 per day. Skilled workmen are, of course, paid accord ing to their ability. Agricultural laborers earn from 20 to 40 cents per day. Women work in most of the factories and earn from 20 to 60 cents per day. Meat is but rarely used by the working classes. The hours of labor vary according to the season from twelve hours per day in sum mer to ten in winter. In many of the factories wages are paid per week of sixty hours. Piece work is done in many houses by women and girls with hand looms, etc., for the various factories, from materials furnished them. The sanitary conditions of the dwellings for workmen are of the poorest description, little or no care being given to them. 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.