An essay on the wages paid to females for their labour
Subtitle: in the form of a letter, from a gentleman in Boston to his friend in Philadelphia
By: by Joseph Tuckerman
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: Carey & Hart, J. Grigg, and Towar & Hogan; Carter & Hendee, and Cummings & Hillyard; Collins & Hanay; E.J. Coale
Published: 1830
Place of publication: Philadelphia; Boston; New York; Baltimore
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Women; Employment; Social conditions; Wages
Notes: At head of title: Prize essay.

A premium was awarded to the author by the editor of the Gazette of the United States, Philadelphia, in February, 1830, for the best essay on the inadequacy of the wages paid to female laborers and on the effects of that inadequacy upon the happiness and morals of those females, and their families.

Reproduction of the original from the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.

Includes bibliographical references.