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The Industrial Woman
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will feel like smiling. Their work will be a joy. They will be taught to understand and skilfully handle the machinery they mind. Their comfort in everything will be considered. Meals will be served in lofty dining-halls, nor will they need to hurry away from the meal to the work.

Married women with children will not work in the factory; at least until the children are out of their hands. They will not wish to do so, for they will be free, and their children will claim them. But childless married women and unmarried women will be at liberty to please themselves as to the way in which they shall exercise the labour which will be demanded of all.

No children will be permitted to work for wages, or for anything but their own instruction. They will probably leave the secondary school for a special or technical school, where the first principles of their future craft shall be taught them by sympathetic teachers of either or both sexes.

Although machinery as used in factory and workshop will be more highly valued, much more used, and far better understood under Socialism and in Socialist workshops