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The
Italian daughters or sisters, who in Italy used to work around
the house or in the fields, never receiving compensation, sees
the "girl on the lower floor" [Irish and American working
women] go out every day and earn good money that gives her, what
appears to the newcomer, not only splendid independence, but even
the undreamed of joy of wearing Grand Street millinery. The home
becomes hateful.
Gino
Speranza, "The Italians in Congested Districts," Charities
and the Commons, 20 (1908), 56.
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