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Excerpt from The Case for Wages Boards
Direct practical outcome was a temporary craze for slumming on the part of certain well-to-do women. Indirectly, the Report has not been without effect: a deepened interest in the question of housing, a greater stringency in enforcing the laws of Public Health, certain amendments in the Factory and Workshops Act of 1901 may be traced, in the past, to the new knowledge of the conditions under which work is done by the poorest class of workers, conveyed to the general mind and conscience through its pages. But the root cause of the evil was left untouched. No one in authority, nineteen years ago, had the courage to strike his finger on the place and point out that, in regulation of the wages paid to the sweated, lay the only reasonable hope of abolishing the sweating system.
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