This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...places. Extra inducements have been held out to make the positions as permanent as possible. Courteous treatment on the part of the overseers has added materially to the good faith between employer and employee. Another reason is the wise forethought of offering the operatives tenements at low rates, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...places. Extra inducements have been held out to make the positions as permanent as possible. Courteous treatment on the part of the overseers has added materially to the good faith between employer and employee. Another reason is the wise forethought of offering the operatives tenements at low rates, considering the comforts and accommodations. The houses are well ventilated, have good sanitary conditions, modern improvements, and what is of fully as much importance, as far as it is possible, the privacy of life in cottage homes has been secured. Not more than three families, and often but two, are compelled to enter at the same door. There is, too, every opportunity for the deserving workman to rise above his beginning, while he may lay aside for some future day a snug sum with which to begin life in another calling if he chooses. The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company has further shown its inclination to unite its interest with that of its employees by offering to hold for any person in its employ from one to twenty shares of preferred stock, to be taken up by semi-monthly payments from their wages, or by cash payments as the purchaser may prefer. It has been well said that "In its offering stock to its employees in this way the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company is in a certain sense developing a general plan followed by some of the best corporations throughout the country to interest the people themselves personally in the company they are working for. The terms upon which this stock is offered, however, are especially liberal and will undoubtedly be taken advantage of by many men and women." Another trait worthy of comment is the position in regard to the employment of children. As child labor is most available in mills, where the work is done by...
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