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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 91
not to be reached by having the woman work
under conditions which ruin both her and the
whole generation physically. In other re-
spects she must be able to use her free choice,
and be educated enough to make good use of
it. Justice consists in protecting innumerable
women, who are not able as yet to protect
themselves, against the abuses of which capital
is guilty in employing their labour power.
It is an instructive feature in the history of
class conflict, and of the movement for
women’s progress, that as women began by
driving men out of certain fields of labour, so
now unmarried women try to force married
women from the labour market. In America,
where everything goes at full speed, an asso-
ciation has been founded among unmarried
women with this intention. These and simi-
lar phenomena belong to the system of free
competition, the creation of the " leading
thought of our time, the right of the individual
to determine his own vocation." Perhaps
when the war of women against women be-
comes the rule, the women’s rights women will
see that the problem of woman’s work is more
complicated than they imagine. They have
continued to look at it till now only from the
point of view of a woman’s right to take care
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