London Duckworth & Co 1907

With an introduction by A G Gardiner. xxiv + 281pp. Small 8vo. Cloth spine, gilt titles. Very good copy. Clementina Maria Black (27 July 1853 – 19 December 1922) was an English writer, feminist and pioneering trade unionist, suffragist and social reformer. The Sweated Industries exhibition, 1906 had been held the year before this book appeared and is reported on in detail in the introduction to this book. Clementina Black played a key role in the 1906 "Daily News" Sweated Industries exhibition, a campaign to expose and address the exploitation of workers on low wages and this book offers a survey of the conditions of the poorest working in sweated industries and at the end proposes some solutions. She had been involved in various campaigns since the late 1880s when she was actively involved in the Bryant and May strike.