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Description: | Matchbox-making was amongst the lowest paid home work, and was dominated by women and children. This woman would paste together strips of paper and wood, called skillets, to form lids and trays. She received tuppence ha'penny per gross (two and a half pence for 144), but had to supplying her own paste and fire to dry the boxes.
John Galt, a missionary with the London City Mission, photographed these workers outside the poor living conditions of their deprived home, where they would normally spend up to 12 hours working every day. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work Communities Home and Family | Temporal: | 1900-1907 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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