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Women in Industry.
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Women in Industry.

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Match box making. One gross for a twopence, and have to find their own flour for paste and to deliver them. Two people, at the end of two days, earn 1s 2d. Brush-drawing. Puts the bristles into a hair-brush, which takes an hour, and gets five farthings. Has to deliver them.

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