Russel Sage Foundation

Written as an appendix to the Fourth Report of the New York State Factory Investigating Commission in 1914, this report examines working wages for women in the millinery trade in an effort to determine what would constitute as fair and adequate rates of pay in such a diverse industry. It argues that such a trade requires the steadying of its seasons, thus lengthening the period of employment in order to make yearly income certain and adequate.

MARY VAN KLEECK was director of the Division of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation.