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B. L. (B. Leigh) Hutchins.

Women in modern industry

. (page 23 of 24)

by the Committee on the Legal Regulation of Women's Labour.

CHAPTER IV.
WOMEN IN UNIONS.

Report on Combination Laws. Parliamentary Papers, 1825,

vol. iv. Appendices 6, 10, 16.

Board of Trade. Seventeenth Report on Trade Unions, 1912.
Board of Trade. Sixteenth Labour Abstract, 1915.
Articles of the Manchester Small Ware Weavers, printed at Man-
chester, 1756. (Manchester Library.)
WEBB, SIDNEY AND BEATRICE. History of Trade Unionism, pp.

104-5, 121-3, etc.
CHAPMAN, S. J. History of the Lancashire Cotton Industry,

pp. 213-5, etc.

Report on Standard Piece Rates of Wages in the U.K. Parlia-
mentary Papers, 1900, vol. Ixxxii.
Reports of the Women's Trade Union League, 1874 to present time.

(34 Mecklenburgh Square.)
Women in the Printing Trades. Edited by J. Ramsay MacDonald.

1904.
Report by Miss Busbey on Women's Unions in Great Britain.

Bulletin of the Labour Department, U.S.A. No. 83.
Labour Commission. Evidence of Mrs. Hicks and Miss James.

Parliamentary Papers, 1892, vol. xxxv.
Reports of the National Federation of Women Workers. (34

Mecklenburgh Square.)
Also reports of trade union and other societies and information

given privately.
America. History of Women in Trade Unions. Vol x. of Report

on Women and Child Wage-Earners in the U.S.
Admission to American Trade Unions. By F. Wolfe, Ph.D. Johns

Hopkins University Studies, 1912.
Women in Trade Unions in San Francisco. L. R. Matthews

University of California Publications in Economics, vol. iii

1913-
Making Both Ends Meet. Clark and Wyatt. New York: Macmillan,

1911. Chaps, ii. and v.

The WorldTof Labour. G. D. H. Cole. Bell, 1913. Chap. v.
Report on "strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Mass., in 1912.

Washington : Government Printing Office, 1912.



3 04 AUTHORITIES

CHAPTER IVA.

WOMEN IN UNIONS (continued).

Germany. BRAUN, LILY. Die Frauenfrage, 1901.

GNAUCK-KUHNE, ELISABETH. Die Arbeiterinnenfrage. M. Glad-
bach, 1905.

SANDERS, W. STEPHEN. Industrial Organisation in Germany.
Special supplement to the New Statesman, October 18, 1913.

The Organisation of Women Workers in Germany. Special Report
to the International Women's Trade Union League of America.
Submitted by the Women Workers' Secretariat of the General
Commission of Trade Unions of Germany. Berlin, 1913.

ERDMANN, A. Church and Trade Unions in Germany. Published
by the General Commission of Trade Unions in Germany.
Berlin, 1913.

CHAPTER VII.

EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT.

Reports of the Board of Trade on the State of Employment in the
United Kingdom in October and December 1914, and February

1915-

Interim Report of the Central Committee on Employment of Women.

The Labour Gazette.

Labour in War-Time. By G. D. H. Cole. Bell, 1915.

Report on Outlets for Labour after the War by a Committee ap-
pointed by Section F of the British Association. Manchester
Meeting. 1915.

Articles in the New Statesman, Common Cause, Englishwoman,
Economic Journal, etc.



INDEX



Abbott, Edith, 151
Abram, Annie, 13
Accidents, 59, 125, 129
Accounts of Hen. VII., 27

of seventeenth century, 15

Shuttleworth, n
Accrington, 96
Adam and Eve, 6
Adaptation of industry in war-time,

248
Administration of the Factory Act,

53, 181-2, 243> 255, 282-93
Adolescence, care of, 206
Aftalion, 72
Agricultural population, report on,

5i

Aikin, 43, 50
Aldhelm, 7
Alfred, King, 5
Amalgamated Society of Clothiers,

116

Amalgamation, the, 112
America, 60

Women's Unions in, section,

141

Ammunition workers' strike, 130-31
Anaemia, 188
Ancren Riwle, 8
Andrews, 7

Anglo-Saxon industry, 5, 7
Anthropology, 2
Anti-Combination Act, repeal of,

92

Anti-Socialist Law, 155
Anti-Sweating League, 125, 133
Apathy of the governing class,

52



Apathy of women, 104-7, 113, 115,

209

Apprentices, factory, 273
Apprenticeship, section, 15
Architects, the first, 2
Arkwright, 33, 35, 36, 47
Artizans and Machinery, Select

Committee on, 53
Ashley, afterwards Shaftesbury,

Lord, 185

Asses, machines worked by, 43
Assistance in craft industries by

women and girls, 16
Association, section, 205
Athenaeum, 52 n.

Attacks on the factory system, 49-51
Attraction of the family, 83
Aubrey, 7

Backwardness of the Factory Act,

184
Bad conditions in factories, 135, 181,

273, 286

Bagley, Sarah, 142
Baines, E., 38, 44
Bamford, 24
Barber knotter, the, 294
Barry, Leonora, 145
Beam, the, 98
Beamers, 126
Beaming, 107
Bebel, 156
Berchta, 2
Berlin, 158, 159
Bermondsey, 135
Besant, Mrs., 128
Betterment, 202



305



X



306



INDEX



Bill to raise wages, 1593, 20
Bilston, 136
Birmingham, 43, 62, 136

trades, 29

Bishopsgate, workhouse in, 21
Black, Clementina, 122, 128
Blackburn, 33, 96, in, 112, 113

society, 99
Black Death, 4
Bondfield, Margaret, 259 n.
Bon wick, 23

Bookbinders, Society of, 120
Boot and shoe trade, 63-4

Unions, 116, 150
Boston, 151
Bosworth, Louise, 234
Bourgeois women's movement, 162,

163

Bowley, A. L., 228
Bradford, 116

Bradford Dale, 25
Brass work, 66

polishing, 191

Braun, Frau Lily, 69, 161-4, *75
Brighton, 122
Bristol, 14, 29, 63, 64, 65, 224

Weavers' Gild of, 22
Britain, Great, what she stands for,

265

British Association, 64
Biicher, 9
Bureau of Labour, enquiry by,

149

Burnley weavers, 102
Burslem, 29
Butler, Elizabeth, 61
Butler, Josephine, 199
Button-making, 29

Cadbury, E., 195 n.
Capitalist employer, the, 185-6
Card-room operatives, 59, section,

113, 126, 168
Carpenters' Company, 17
Carrying loads, 65, 66
Cartwright, 35, 42
Catholic Unions, 161, 164
Causes of lack of organisation, 115,

139, i5i

Census, Chap. III.
Central Commission of German

Trade Unions, 156



Central Committee on Women's

Employment, 247
Central Strike Fund, 103
Centralisation needed, 173
Chain-makers, 131

Board, first determination of, 132
Changes effected by industrial re-
volution, section, 178
Chapman, Sydney J., 92
Charles II., 26
Chaucer, 10
Chemicals, 63
Child labour in factories, 272

report on, 57

Childbirth, employment after, 290
Children and machines, 43, 272

exploitation of, 264
Children's clothes, 65

Employment Commission, 62, 63
Chorley weavers, 96, 103
Christian Trade Unions, 160
Churchill, Winston, 20
Cigar trade, 117, 118
Citizenship for women, 190, 196
Civil conditions, statistics of, 79
Clarke, Allen, 45

Class differences and class solidarity,
174

interest, 166

selfishness, 186
Cleft, the, 207
Clothing trades, 64

Unions, 116

wages in, 218
Clothworkers, 14
Clubs for working women, 166
Coal-mining, women in, 29
Cole, G. D. H., 174, 208
Collectors, 105
Collet, Clara, 80, 170
Combination among rich clothiers,
17, 18

of Workers, Committee on, 94
Committees of Weavers' Union,

108, 176

Competing Unions, 172, 173
Competition between men and
women, 66

for employment, 169
Complexity of weavers' lists, 99
Compositors, 116, 117
Compositors' Union, 117



INDEX



307



Comradeship among women, 190

Confectioners' Union, 130

Confectionery works, 67

Constructive measures, section, 260

Consumers, women as, 208, 263

Consumers' co-operation, 208

Co-operation with bourgeois move-
ment to be avoided, 163

Co-operative Guild, Women's, 208

Copper works, 29

Cop-winding, 107

Core-making, 64, 146

Corporate action, 175
women untrained for, 165

Cotton, bad, 101, 114

Cotton Factory Times, 145 n.

Cotton trade, 31 et seq., section,
240, 268-82

Cotton weavers, section, 96, 168,

173

male, 60

Cotton- weaving, 58
Courtney, Janet, 263 n.
Coventry, 64

ribbon trade, 41
Cracker factory, strike in, 148
Cradley, 133-4, 136
Cradley Heath chain-makers, 131
Craft Unions, 149, 158, 207-8
Cunningham, W., D.D., 38
Curse of the Factory System, 47
Cycle industry, 64

Darwen and Ramsbottom, 96

Death-rates, 77

of male infants, 257

Deaths of women in mine ex-
plosions, 29

Decay of hand-spinning, section,
39

Decline of domestic manufacture,
35

Decrease of employment in war-
time, statistics of, 241, 266

Deductions, 292

Deficiencies, educational, 169

Defoe, Daniel, 24

Delays in labour legislation, causes
of, 186

Deloney, 6

Dependents on women -workers,
145-6, 233-4



Derby, 27, 95

Derbyshire, 29, 97

Deroit Free Press, 145

Development of capitalistic in-
dustry, section, 17

Development of women's employ-
ment, 6 1

Devon, 51

Devotion and self-sacrifice of women,
165

Difficulties in organising women,
115, 139, 151, 154, 164, 169

Digby Mysteries, 6

Dismissal without notice, 125

Disproportion of women, 77

Distaff, the, Chap. I., section
Textiles, 5

Divergent views on factory system,

45

Division among the weavers, 97
Dock and General Workers' Union,

126

Dock Strike, 128
Doherty, 55
Domestic workers, statistics of, 84,

86

little organisation among, 168
Dorset, 51
Dover, New Hampshire, strikes

at, 141
Drawers, 126
Dressmakers, little organisation

among, 168
Dressmaking, 64, 65, 87, 118

factory, d.-m., 72, 220
Drudgery a survival, 203-4
Dundee, 115
Dunlop, Jocelyn, 15, 1 6
Dust-extractor, 59
Dust in rope-works, 129

Early civilisation, 1-3

Early factories, conditions in, 50,

52, 181
Early manufactures, characteristics

of, 47

Earning power of women, 71-2
Earnings and Hours Enquiry, 214
Earnings in 1770, 33
of women, Chap. VI.

insufficient for health, 229
East End workers, 128



308



INDEX



East Lancashire Amalgamated
Society, 96

East London, 130

East Meon, Church of, 6

Economic Independence, 80

Economic Section of British Asso-
ciation, 64, 253 n.

Economic self-dependence, 81

Eden, Sir F., 39

Edmonton, ammunition workers at,

130-31

Education by Trade Unions, 159

Educational deficiencies, 169

Edward VI., 21

Effects, moral, of Trade Unions
among women, 153

Effects of the War on the employ-
ment of women, Chap. VII.

Egotistic refinement, 198

Eight -hour Leagues, 143

Elements of Statistics, 228

Elizabeth, 19

Employers oppose Unionism, 151

Engineering, 64

Enlightenment of women, 194

Ephemeral character of Women's
Unions, 150

Equal chance, an, 145

Equal pay for equal work, 144, 152,
172, 255

Equal rates of pay for women, 93

Equality of opportunity, 196

Erdmann, Dr., 167

Essex, 25 n.

Exclusion of women, section, 189
from local governing bodies, 198

Exeter, Justices of, 20

Expansion of trade, 18

Experience in sorting wool, 21

Fachverein der Mantelnaherinnen,

155

Factory, the, section, 43
Factory Act, the first, 185
of 1833, 45, 181
of 1844, 1847, 1850, 1864, 1867,

1878, 1901, 182
prejudice against the, 120
what it has done, section, 181
Factory system, beginning of, 21,

22
disliked, 42



Fall of prices hi weaving, 26, 37, 39
Fall River, strike at, 143-4
Family, attraction of the, 83

women working in the, 178
Fatigue, 202
Federation of Trade Unions, 208

American, 145, 146, 152
Felkin, 25

Female Industrial Association, 142
Female Membership of Trade

Unions, 177

Feminist movement, 175
Ferrier, Dr., 52
Fielden, John, 45, 47
File cutlery, 64
Fines, unfair, 100-102, 127-8
Finishing goods, 67
Fire-escapes, 287
Five hours' spell, 183
Flax, 10, n, 242

industry, strike in the, 138
Fly-shuttle, invention of, 33
Folklore ceremonies, i
Food trades, 63

Frame-work knitting, section, 25
Free Unions, German, 156, 160
Freedom of employment, un-
restricted, 193
Frigga's Distaff or Rock, 5
Fruit-picking, 65
Fuegians, 2

Future organisation of women,
section, 206

Garment workers, 150

Gaskell, Mrs., 74

Gaskell, P., 38 n., 45, 47, 48, 56, 231

Gas -Workers' and General La-
bourers' Union, 140, 174 n.

General Federation of Trade Unions,
140

Gentlemen's Magazine, 39

German Statistical Year- Book, 157

Germany, Women's Unions in,
section, 154,

Girls untrained, 16

Girl-workers, 73

Glasgow, 94, 122, 224
spinners, 93

Glossop, 27

Gloucester, 30

Gloucestershire, 18



INDEX



309



Gnauck-Kiihne, Elizabeth, 157, 164-

166, 207 w.

Goldmark, Josephine, 202
Governing class, 52, 179, 181
Graham, 54

Grand General Union, 93
Grand National Union, 95
Grant, P., 45
Greenwood, Arthur, 189
Greig, Mrs. Billington, 209
Grey or Franciscan Friars, 6
Guest, 32
Guild, Women's Co-operative, 176-

177

Habit of association, lack of, 106

Half-pay apprentices, 41

Halifax, 39

Hamilton, A., 20

Hammond, J. L. and B, 180 .

Hand-loom Weavers, Committee on,

42
Hand-loom weaver's wife, section,

40

Hand-wheels thrown aside, 34
Hargreaves, J., 33, 42
Haslam, J., 191, 192, 193
Hat and cap workers, 150
Healds, 98
Hebden Bridge, 231
Henley, Walter of, 10
Henry VII., accounts of, 27
Henry VIII., 19
Hicks, Mrs. Amie, 128, 129, 130
Hicks, Margaretta, 209
Hirsch-Duncker Unions, 161
Holda or Holla, 2
Hollow- ware workers, strike of, 136-

138

Home, work in the, 44
Home Workers' Union, 160
Horrocks, 36
Hostility of employers to Unions,

139, 151, 169

Hotel servants and waitresses, 168
Houldsworth, 93
Hours of work, 183-4, 277, 289
Housewife preparing wool, n, 14-15

position of the, 165
Housing in towns, 50
Huddersfield, 115
Hull, 14, 15



Husbandry, servants in, section, 3
Hutchins, B. L., 197 n., 207 n.
Hyde, 93

Ideals of Victorian era, 198-9

Ignorance of domestic work, 51

Importation of silk, 26

Improvements in working condi-
tions, 190, 202

Increase of women in metal trades,
63

Increase of women - workers in
Germany, 155

Industrial change, effects of, 42
revolution, Chap. II.

Industrial Workers of the World,
148

" Industry in bonds," 49

Inequality of wages, 123

Influence of Unions on conditions,

153

Injury from prolonged standing,
186, 187

Insanitary conditions in confec-
tioners' workrooms, 130

Inspection of factories impossible
for women, 197

Inspectors, factory, 181
women appointed as, 182

Instability of status, 152

Insurance Act, 103, 108, 116, 126,
131, 176, 188, 205

Interdenominational Unions, 161

Interests, interlocking of, 173

" Inter konfessionelle " Unions, 164

International Association for Labour
Legislation, 125

International Typographical Union,

143

International Workers' Congress,

123

Inventions, 43
Ipswich, 65

Christ's Hospital at, 21
Ireland, 224

Irons on apprentices, 274
Ironworks, a fifteenth-century, 29
Isolation of women, 164-5

Jacquard's loom, 42
Jam-making, 135
James, Clara, 128, 130



INDEX



James, John, 25 n.
James, William, 207
Jones, Lloyd, 106

Kaffirs, 2

Kamtchatdals, 2

Kay, 33

Kendal, 39

Kettering, 224

King, Mr., 120

Knights of Labour, 144, 145

Knitting-machine, 25

Korrespondenzblatt, 158

Labour, an important factor in

production, 136
Labour Commission, 61, 63, 129,

170, 197, 198
Labour League, Women's, 177,

208
Labour legislation, weakness of and

delays in, 186
Labour movement, 127
Labourers, Statute of, 4
Lacquering, 63
Lancashire, 61, 74, 96, 97, 102

cotton spinners of, 93
Lapsley, 29
Lassalle, 158

Laundresses, Union of, 122
Laundry Workers' International

Union, 147
Law, Alice, 36
Lawrence, Mass., 149
Lead mines, women in, 29

poisoning, 288
Lee, inventor of knitting-machine,

25

Leeds, 23, 39, 116, 224
Leicester, 92, 224
Leland's Itinerary, 21
Lenience of Magistrate, 293
Levant Company, 32
Lighting of work-places, 184, 284
Linen and jute, 115, 242
List prices, 99, 100, 114
Liverpool, 173
Locked in factory, 129-30
Lombe, John, 27
London, 126, 242

milliners, 168

Trades Council, 128



London weavers, 13, 14

Women's Trades Council, 123

Loom, the, 5

Low wages of women, consolation
for, 57

Lowell, Female Labour Reform

Association at, 142
strikes at, 141
Union, 142

Lye, 136, 137

Lytton, Lady Constance, 200

Macarthur, Mary, xv, 131
Macclesfield, 28
MacDonald, J. R., 195 n.
Machine work, 66
Machinery and skill, 68-9

and women's employment, 69-70
Mackworth, Sir H., 29
Maladjustment and Readjustment,

section, 245

Male Weavers' Union, 143-4
Malingering, xv, 188
Malmesbury Abbey, 21-2
Manchester, 31, 32, 47, 50, 55, 93,
126, 173, 176, 224

societies, 126-7

spinners, 92

Women's Trade Union Council,

139

Women's War Interests Com-
mittee, 256, 296
Mantoux, 23, 41
Manufactures and Commerce 1 , Select

Committee on, 54
Markham, Gervase, 14
Marriage, section, 78

and organisation, 151

decreasing prospect of, 196, 256

prospect of, its effects on young

men and women, 151, 169-70
Married women's work, 89-91
Marx, Karl, 49
Mary, Queen, 21
Match factories, 47

workers, 183

makers' Union, 128
Match-girls' strike, 127-8
Material progress, 51, 265
Maternity benefit, 103, 259 n.

and child welfare, 258

care of, 206



INDEX



Matheson, M. C., 195 n.
Matthews, Miss, 153
Mechanical power, 200-201

progress, 43
Mellor, 33

Men and women, division of work
between, 53

numbers of, in cotton spinning,

55

organised together, 166, 168
Metal trades, increase of women's

employment in, 63
Metal-cutting, 66
Middle-class women's movement,

section, 195

Mines, an Account of, 29
Minimum, principle of the, 237-8

requirements, 227
Monopoly of trade in clothing, 18
Moral atmosphere of factories, 50

effects of Unionism, 153
Mortality, 76, 77
Movement of women's wages,

section, 229
Mule-spinning, 191-2
Mundella, A. J., 250 n.
Munitions work, 251-2

National Federation of Women
Workers, 131, 133, section,
140, 296

Nature of Woman, 2

Neath, 29

Needlewomen, 154

Nelson and District Weavers' As-
sociation, 101 n.

New demand for women's labour,
section, 250

New England cotton mills, 142

New spirit among women, section,
199

New Unionism, 127, 149, 174

New York, 141, 142

Nightingale, Florence, 199, 200

Non-textile trades, 28-30

industrial revolution in, section, 61

Nordverein der Berliner Arbeite-
rinnen, 155

Northampton, 224

N.E. Lancashire Amalgamated
Society, 96

Norwich, 23, 224



Oakeshott, G., 118 n.

Oastler, Thomas, 185

Occupational statistics, 81-8

Oldham, 95

and district, 96

Opposition of landowners to

Liberals, 46

to factory legislation, 121-3
to women's employment, 42, 43,

93, 94

Oppression by employers, 19
Ordinances of Worcester, 18
Organisation, early efforts at, sec-
tion, 92

in different trades, 171
of German Unions, 157-60
of women, need for, 107, 255
of women, together with men,

172
of young persons, difficulty of,

H3

Outlook, the, section, 167
Overcrowding in towns, 52
Overstrain, no

in cotton industry, 59, 281, 287
Overtime, 184, 289
Owen, Robert, 44, 47, 53, 95,
106

Padiham, 96, 113
Paper and stationery, 63
Paper-sorting or overlooking, 67,

168

Paris, 123

Paterson, Emma, 119-22
Pay-stewards, 176
Pearson, Karl, i, 206
Peel, the elder, 53
Peel's Committee (1816), 41
Pen trade, 63

Percival, Dr. Thomas, 52, 185
Personality in Union officials, 174
Petition against importation of

silk, 26, 27
of weavers, 17
Philanthropy, 163, 166
Phosphorus, white, prohibition of,

183

Phossy jaw, 183
Picks, 98
Pictet, 5
Piece rates, 97-102



312



INDEX



Piecers to replace spinners, 54
women as, 192

Piers Plowman, 8

Pin manufacture, 30

Pittsburgh, U.S.A., 61

Plague, the, 4

Plated ware trade, 30

Policy, a coherent, 173

Polish women weavers, strike of, 149

Polynesians, 2

Poor Law, its effect on wages, 21
of Elizabeth, 32

Possibilities of modern industry, 204
of State control, section, 204

Potential changes of the industrial
revolution, section, 200

Potteries, 29

Potters, 146

Power sewing-machine, 63

Power-loom, 35
introduction of the, 55

Premature employment, effects of,
62

Preparing material, 65

Present position of the woman
worker, section, 183

Press-work, 66

Preston, 96

Primitive industries, 2, 3

Printing, 66, 116

Professional women, scope for,
263 n.

Professions for women, 80

Prohibition to combine, 80
of women's employment, 14

Proportion of women in Unions, 147

Prosperity of spinners, 38

Protective and Provident League,
119-24

Psychological difficulties in organis-
ing women, 164

Public spirit, lack of, 170

Queen, the, 247

Radcliffe Society, 96
Radcliffe, William, 33
Rag-cutting, 65
Ramsay, Isle of Man, 93
Reaction in war-time, 264
Reciprocal movement between
spinners and weavers, 40



Reed, 97

Reeling, 107

Reforms started by industrial em-
ployers, 53

Registrar-General, 75, 76

Relative wages of men and women,
231-6

Replacement of men by women, 55-
56, 252, 255

Results the War may have, section,
256

Richards, factory inspector, 49

Rights and privileges of women, 105

Ring-room doffers, 113

Ring-spinners, 114

Ring- winders, in

Ring-winding, 107

Roberts, Lewis, 32

Rock, Maria, 5

Rogers, Thorold, 4, 5

Rope-makers, 129

Sadler, M. T., 185

St. Crispin, Daughters of, 142, 144

San Francisco, 147, 153

Sanitary conditions in non-textile

trades, 62
Sanitation in town and country, 50,

5i

Schreiner, Olive, 69
Schultze-Gavernitz, 44, 157
Screw manufactories, 62
Seamstresses, 146
Segregation of women from affairs,

109

Sewing women, 143
Shaftesbury, Lord, 185, 186
Shakespeare quoted, 19, 25 n.
Shann, G., 195 n.
Sheffield, 64

plated ware trade, 30
Shifting of industrial processes, 44
Shirt-making, 223
Shock of War, section, 239
Shop Assistants' Union, 140, 176
Shortage of women's labour, 245
Shorter hours, effects of, 202

movement for, 109-10
Shuttleworth Accounts, n
Shyness of women, 109
Sick benefit, 119, 131, 188
Sick visitors, 108, 176



INDEX



313



Sickness Benefit Claims, Com-
mittee on, xv
Silk, section, 26
Simcox, Edith, 123
Sisterhood, the, 92, 271 n.
Slater, G., 180 n.
Small-ware weavers, 92
Snowden, Keighley, 136 .
Soap, 63
" Social and Economic History,"

36

Social Democratic Party, 156
Social England, 29
Social influences, 163, 166, 170
Social strata in the factory, 67
Socialism and women, 163-4
Solidarity between men and women,

196

Sorting clothes in laundries, 65
Southey, 50
" Spear-half," 5
Speeding up, 58-9, no, 281
Spell of work, 183
" Spindle-half," 5
Spinning, a family occupation, 24

by young women, 9

for the unemployed, 21

jennies, 34, 42

machine invented by Hargreaves,
33

parties, 9

Squire, Miss Rose, 184
Stages in the woman's career, 207
Standard of life in Lancashire, 60,
105, 107, 187

of immigrants, 142
Standing, effects of persistent, 186,

275

Statistics of domestic workers, 84,
86

of German women in Unions, 167

of textile workers, 87

of unemployment in war-time,
241, 266

of wages, Chap. VI.

of women in Unions, 177

of women's life and employment,

Chap. III.

Statutory rights of workers, 186, 204
Stay-making, 65
Steam laundry workers, 147
Steam power, introduction of, 35



Stockport, 36, 108, 113

strike at, 96

Strain of modern industry, section,
186

of work, 184, 281
Strike-breakers, 93
Strikes, see various industries

in 1911, 135

Struggle of the crafts, 19
Stumpe, 21

Suffolk clothiers, petition of, 18
Surats, 101, 280
Surplus of women, section, 75
Survival of previous standards and

conditions, section, 179
Swabia, 2
Syndicalism, 197

Tailoresses, increase of, 87

Union of, 122
Tailoring, 64, 221
Tailors, Amalgamated Society of,

X22

Tapestry, 8

Tayler, Dr. L., 2

Taylor, Cooke, the elder, 48, 49,

52 n.

Temple, Sir William, n
Textile work, as adjunct to farming,

24, 33

societies, 126
workers, 150
workers, statistics of, 87
workers, wages of, 216
Textiles, section, 5
Theodore, St., 8
Thiiringen, 2
Times, the, 127, 128
Timidity of social legislation, 185
Timmins, S., 63
Tobacco, 63

workers in, 127
Toynbee Hall, 127
Tracey, Anna, 188
Trade Boards Act, 1909, 20, 116,
126, 131, 132, 138, 183, 224,
226, 245
Trade Union Congress, 119, 120,

122, 123

Traill's Social England, 29
Transformation of some womanly
trades, 61-2



314



INDEX



Treasure of Traffike, 32
Truck Act, 184-5, 290

in Germany, 155
Twisters, 126
Typographical Societies, 116

Umbrella Sewers' Union, 142
Underclothing, 65
Underground, women working, 194
Unemployment and short time,

228
Unemployment among women in

war-time, 240-43
Unions, women in, Chaps. IV. and

IV.A

U.S.A., Labour Commission of, 234
Unorganised trades, 102, 126
Unorganised workers, movement

among, section, 127, 256
Unsuitable work, 194, 236
Unwin, Professor, 14, 18, 19, 22
Upholsterers, 146
Ure, 44, 47

Variety of conditions, 46, 47
Ventilation, 276

Verein zur Vertretung der In-
teressen der Arbeiterinnen, 155
Victimisation, 96, 97, 105, 139, 169

Wage census, 1906, Chap. VI.

Wage contract, 73

Wages in seventeenth century, 20

in miscellaneous trades, 225-6

of women, Chap. VI.
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