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Ravenscroft also claims Mr Farnes engaged external tailors - known as outworkers
Home | Mail Online 2010
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Ravenscroft also claims Mr Farnes engaged external tailors - known as outworkers
Home | Mail Online 2010
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The establishments visited in England generally perform all the operations of making and trimming hats in their own establishments, although at times "outworkers" are employed.
Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926) United States Tariff Commission
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He's referring, rather, to the Royal Mint of Ankh-Morpork, a venerable institution that has run for centuries on the hereditary employment of the Men of the Sheds and their loyal outworkers, who do make money in their spare time.
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When outworkers are included in the number of workers in manufacturing, women made up about 50 percent of the labor force.
1846-48 2001
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Invention of the sewing machine reduced the labor requirements for garment making, but also led to lower wages for the labor force, mostly women who worked at home as outworkers.
1846-48 2001
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Majesty's officers of the army, and either Madame or Miss Higham was called frequently to Pall Mall; and, in a brief period, all the outworkers were again busy: Great Titchfield Street found itself so fully occupied that the girls had no time to recall songs learned at the second house of their favourite music hall.
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The law so far is scarcely more than tentative, but in these successive acts provisions have been made by which all manufacturers or contractors must keep lists of outworkers engaged by them, and submit these to the factory inspectors for supervision.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904
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It aims to stamp out exploitative practices where outworkers, mainly migrant women with little English, are paid as little as $3 an hour.
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Times Messenger that exploitation of outworkers - much of which is concentrated in the western suburbs - had moved beyond the traditional clothing industry to home-based food preparation.
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