Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...size as utterly to preclude the ability to study thoroughly the first filaments of its composition, and to resolve them with any degree of success into their elements. Therefore, scientific scholars will hail with enthusiasm the results which have been obtained at an expense of so much time and labor, and which will make it possible for them to pursue their researches intelligently and to have some solid foundation for many explanations which, up to this time, have been hardly more than conjectures...
...John Graham Brooks, of Brockton, addressed a large audience last night in Sever 11. He tried, as he said, to tell a few results of his experience, the knowledge of which would have saved him much labor and many grave mistakes...
...clock, these, too, await investigation. More than all, the problem of the surplus unskilled sewing women calls out for remedies. Facts are wanted to show that the idea, that cheap living reduces wages, is a fiction. Are employers forced to take advantage of the over-supply of labor, and would wages fall if attempts were made to save? If a man wants to do something, let him read Mrs. Field's and Mrs. Lowell's books on charity, and then let him go to the Associated charities. He will be brought immediately face to face with the problem of immigration...
Question: Resolved, That the contract system of employing prison labor should be abolished...
...From Moral Standpoint., (a) Unremunerative labor is demoralizing.- U. S. Report, 1886, p. 311. (b) The contract system is eminently humane-Nation, August 4th 1887. (c) The constant employment of the convicts by the contract system has proved a great advantage in reforming the lives of prisoners...