Report Upon the Sweating System in Canada
Resource type
Authors/contributors
Title
Report Upon the Sweating System in Canada
Abstract
In 1896, the Trades and Labour Congress petitioned the federal government to investigate the sweatshop system in Canada. Commissioner Alexander Whyte Wright inspected factories, workshops, and private homes in Halifax, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Hamilton. He reported that appalling conditions and paltry wages were the norm in factories and shops, but that workers toiled even longer, earned less, and suffered more in their own homes.
Place
Ottawa
Institution
S.E. Dawson
Date
1896
Pages
51 pages
Language
English
Accessed
4/21/22, 6:30 PM
Extra
OCLC: 1083475710
Notes
Printed by order of Parliament.
Abstract by Desmond Maley.
Citation
Wright, A. W., Canada. Commission to Investigate Whether, and if so, to What Extent, the Sweating System is Practised in the Various Industrial Centres of the Dominion Commission to Investigate Whether, & Canada. Parliament. Sessional Papers, 2, XXIX, no. 61, 1896. (1896). Report Upon the Sweating System in Canada (p. 51 pages). S.E. Dawson. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.26293/1
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