Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries
År: 1902
Forlag: Cassell and Company, Limited
Sted: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
Sider: 384
UDK: 338(42) Bri
Illustrated from photographes, etc.
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198 BRITAIN AT WORK.
is reversed. To them the desperate need of
money is the root of all evil, and in many
homes Professor Huxley’s saying sharply
applies, for the parents, however thrifty and
careful they try to be, are “ bound by the
fetters of want, and scourged by the whip of
misery.” The men, influenced by association,
look upon the women, in numerous instances,
merely as wage-earning partners. They
prefer as sweethearts girls handy with the
hammer in the forge or with the mould in
the brickfield. And they consider it as an in-
evitable condition of wedded life that women
should continue to bring pecuniary grist to
the mill. Youthful marriages are common,
and the inexorable fiat of life in the Black
Country seems to be that the poorest couples
should have the most children. At her wits'
end, with many mouths to feed, the anxious
mother does not always grieve at her baby’s
death. She has been heard to exclaim,
“ Thank God, it has gone back ag-ain ! ”
John Pendleton.
Photo: C. G. Mason, Stoiirbridge.
WOMEN BRICKMAKFRS LOADING BARGES.