Women in the Factory by Adelaide Mary Anderson

"‘It's gey handy to have the likes o' you,' a Scottish mother said when consulting Miss Vines on the effects of employment on her daughter's health. "[9]

The outstanding characteristics of the working women of our country that immediately appealed to the Women Factory Inspectors were their courage and their endurance, their ready trustfulness, and their loyalty. Instances of timidity, or fear of losing employment-hard to get and easily lost-by evidence necessary to establish infringements of the law, these did but throw up, in high relief, the dominating traits of the majority. The exceptions were only natural in the days of severe competition for poorly paid work, especially before the organisation in 1898 of the Industrial Law Indemnity Fund[10] for aiding workers dismissed by employers after giving evidence that led to proof of breaches of industrial laws.