Girl Employed in Hotels and Restaurents, The.
[Labor]. Bowen, Louise De Koven. The Girl Employed in Hotels and Restaurants. [Chicago]: Juvenile Protective Association, 1912.
8vo.; grey printed wrappers; text printed in black and red throughout; covers lightly used, pages bright.
A pamphlet which follows the formula of De Koven’s 1911 work (The Department Store Girl); this time she investigates the hard life of female hotel employees, nearly all of whom were immigrant women:
Out of the 50 hotels investigated, only in three did the women employees express satisfaction with the treatment received at the hands of the managers. In all the other places where the investigator interviewed the girls their reproaches and complaints were heartrending. In many instances the women were forced to work longer than the Ten Hour Law permits. This was especially true in the hotels where the employees were foreigners. They themselves did not know of the Ten Hour Law and they were warned not to speak to anyone about their work under the penalty of dismissal. They were therefore afraid to tell the truth to the investigator...Many of them stated that the were ‘so tired after the day’s work that they did not care where they slept if they could only secure a bed on which to throw themselves’...The physical hardships which are endured by these girls are nothing compared to the moral dangers to which they are exposed... (p. 3)
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