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A Student Factory Hand
Sutherland, Margaret Lindsay | February 3, 1926 issue

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This article presents an account of a college student of summer employment in an industrial and agricultural occupation. On her first day at an employment office she had been ignored; the second she was addressed with a comradely "girlie"; and on the third day she was one of them. All of them, including the author, were hunting jobs and reduced to the common denominator of unemployment, they were friends, almost buddies. Most factory girls of the author's age looked very much older. She had observed that fact in the two days she had spent going from factory door to factory door asking for a job, after unsuccessful, mornings at the public employment-bureau.

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SUMMER employment; STUDENTS -- Employment; COLLEGE students; APPRENTICES; APPRENTICESHIP programs; WOMEN apprentices
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