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(ii) there is no definite relationship of master and servant between the actual worker and ultimate proprietor; the so-called branch- managers or contractors are very often men of straw; the ultimate employer, namely, the proprietor, will not be answerable for the wages of the outworkers, there being no privities of contract between them;
(iii) a large body of actual workers are illiterate pariah women who could with Impunity be exploited by the proprietors and contractors; more distressing than that is the indiscriminate and undetectable employment of child labour: