The trade unionist Clementina Black describes the lowest-paid workers in Edwardian Britain: home workers finishing garments for pennies, factory and workshop hands, shop assistants, clerks, waitresses, transport workers and wage-earning children. Having shown the scale of sweating, she argues for wages boards and a legal minimum wage.
A key text of the campaign that led to Britain’s first minimum-wage laws, still relevant to debates on low pay. Download the free EPUB.