It is this break with obsolete tradition that is one of the substantial conditions which have created the possibility and evoked the necessity of regulating production and of public control over it. In particular, speaking of the transformation brought about by the factory in the conditions of life of the population, it must be stated that the drawing of women and juveniles into production is, at bottom, progressive. The poor woman-weaver follows her father and husband to the factory and works alongside of them and independently of them.
Literacy spreads among the women factory workers with remarkable rapidity.
The capitalisation of industry is an important factor in the woman's struggle for her independence in the family. II, Moscow 1882, pp. Moreover, the woman worker's earnings in machine industry, under present conditions, are more secure.