The women wito work at Lesney Products and Co. Ltd.. Hackney, make toys. The women packers there earn a basic hourly rate of 4s 6d. It's just gone up from 4s 3d. This means they get E9 a week basic wage. If they are on piece work a team of 3 women carn 4d per gross toys packed. In this way they can take horne C12 -E13 Don't get the impression that they are complaining. They're not. If you think about it it's not a bad wage for a woman". And the conditions at Lesneys aren't anything complain about, The hours are flexible. You can get off at 4 to get the tea ready or you can work in the evenings when your husband's at home. There's no union at Lesneys, There was a time when the women wanted a union but the men set up works committees instead. Now the women don't want to have anything to do with a union because they can get what they want it becomes clear that the women of Lesneys, when the management can afford to pay up.
The women who work Not because their wage isn't bad for a woman. not because of the conditions, not even because they haven't got a union.
Exploitation is a word that carries feeling with it and gets everyone huffing and puffing on one side or the other, so it's a good ideago make clear what is meant by it. If you exploit something or someone, you use them, you extract value from them.
The women who work at Lesnes Products and Co. Hackney are being used and value is being extracted from them.
If you look at one woman, or a group of women, or a group of workers, you can always slither out of this. You can say someone else doesn't get so much or she could go and work at another place . or she's only doing it so she can show off and she doesn't really need the money as her husband's earning a good wage But if you think of all the used people, if you as a class and you think of the others trapped in between cating off them all the industrial relations people and the advertisers WEIO more moncy whose whole