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In Manchester in England, and Glasgow in Scotland, and many other manufacturing towns in Great Britain, there are thousands of wretched, degraded female operatives, who earn scarcely a shilling a day.
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He highlights the dire conditions faced by female workers in British manufacturing towns.
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