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Title: Prisoners of Poverty Abroad

Author: Helen Campbell

Release Date: March 4, 2009 [EBook #28245]

Language: English

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PRISONERS OF POVERTY ABROAD.

BY HELEN CAMPBELL,

AUTHOR OF "PRISONERS OF POVERTY," "THE WHAT-TO-DO-CLUB,"
"MRS. HERNDON'S INCOME," "MISS MELINDA'S OPPORTUNITY,"
"ROGER BERKELEY'S PROBATION."

BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1889.

_Copyright, 1889,_

BY HELEN CAMPBELL.

University Press:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

_"But laying hands on another_
_To coin his labor and sweat,_
_He goes in pawn to his victim_
_For eternal years in debt."_

TO

F. W. P.

THE FRIEND IN WHOM JUSTICE AND TRUTH ARE SO DEEPLY
IMPLANTED THAT BOTH ARE INSTINCTS,

AND WHOSE MANHOOD HOLDS THE PROMISE OF WORK THAT WILL
GO FAR TOWARD FULFILLING THE DEEPEST WISH OF THE
GENERATION TO WHICH THE MAKER OF THESE PAGES BELONGS.

PREFACE.

The studies which follow, the result of fifteen months' observation
abroad, deal directly with the workers in all trades open to women,
though, from causes explained in the opening chapter, less from the side
of actual figures than the preceding volume, the material for which was
gathered in New York. But as months have gone on, it has become plain
that many minds are also at work, the majority on the statistical side
of the question, and that the ethical one is that which demands no less
attention. Both are essential to understanding and to effort in any
practical direction, and this is recognized more and more as
organization brings together for consultation the women who, having
long felt deeply, are now learning to think and act effectually. These
pages are for them, and mean simply another side-light on the labor
question,--the question in which all other modern probl