Standards for the Employment of Women in Work on War Supplies as submitted to the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense

Standards for the Employment of Women in Work on War Supplies as submitted to the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense

A report from the Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense. 

These standards include recommendations on tenement house work, child labor, protection of mothers, wages, hours, seats, extra heavy and extra hazardous occupations, dangerous trades, heavy lifting, and exposure to heat and cold. 

Header: Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense, Washington, D.C.

"Your Committee on Women in Industry urges the adoption of the following standards for work done for the Government in order to secure the fullest possible protection for women wage-earners."

Committee on Women in Industry. Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense.

M 86 Box 1, Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries

Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense

1918

Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries

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