INDEX
- Adler: Miss Nettie, 108, 123, 124
- Aftalion: A., 2, 255
- Alien immigration, 197
- America: Children’s work in, 115, 119–122, 128;
- Anti-Sweating league: in Melbourne, 247
- Apprentices, parish: Act of, 218
- Arbitration Courts in New Zealand, 235, 236
- Army and Navy Stores, 176, 177
- Australia: wage board in Victoria, 246;
- Babies’ shoe making, 105
- Bake houses: boys working in, 109
- Ball covering, 15
- Bird cage making, 14
- Boot finishing, 15
- Boot making, 105
- Booth: Chas., 6, 65, 148, 155, 201
- Bosanquet: Mrs, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158, 159
- Box making: children’s work, 106
- Brickfields: children working in, 110
- Cabmen, 76
- Cabs and Omnibuses Bill: report of select committee, 82, 83, 97
- Cadbury: Edward, 3
- “Case for the Factory Acts: The,” 114
- Chapman: Prof. S. J., 220
- “Child Labour” (No. 93, Annals of American Academy), 119 120–122, 125, 128–130
- Children: as home workers, 104;
- unpunctual at school through home work, 105;
- babies’ shoe making, 105, 108;
- dodging educational authorities, 106;
- working all night, 106;
- match box making, 106, 108;
- string bag making, 107;
- tooth brush making, 107;
- kid belt making, 107;
- wood chopping, 107;
- wood polishing, 107;
- steel covering, 108;
- fish basket sewing, 108;
- in small laundries, 108;
- half timers, 112;
- errand boys, 108;
- Saturday and evening boys, 108;
- barbers’ lather boys, 108;
- matching girls, 109;
- street trading, 109;
- their labour of little use to them later in life, 109;
- boys working in bake houses, 109;
- in brick-fields, 110;
- heavy loads, 110–111;
- in textile trades, 110–111, 112;
- in the potteries, 114;
- general remarks on child labour, 140
- Civil Service Stores, 177
- Clerks and Bookkeepers, 71, 138
- Committee on wage-earning children, 108
- Competition, free: its effect upon labour, 166;
- checks upon, 195
- Confectionery, 29, 32, 110
- Consumers: Associations of, 176
- Consumers’ League, A: impractibility of, 205–211;
- Co-operation: Industrial, 176, 177, 180
- Co-operative Stores, 201, 202
- Co-operative Union, 180
- Cost of labour: recognition of its true cost, 173
- Cotton mills: children’s work, 110–111, 112–113
- Cotton trade: not natural to Britain, 214–217;
- “Cotton Trade Circular,” 222
- Cotton workers: educational improvement of, 225
- Crabtree: Mr, Inspector of Factories, 221
- Cuthbertson: Miss, Inspector of Factories, Victoria, 256
- Daily News, 59, 60
- Daily News: Sweated Industries Exhibition, 10, 18, 142, 148
- Danger of Fire, 35
- Dockers’ Union, 135
- Dressmaking, 29, 32
- Drink and Poverty: some facts about, 198;
- lessened by shorter hours, 200
- Early marriages: reason for, among working class, 197
- Economy of high wages, 165, 184, 228
- Edgworth: Maria, 115
- Education: effect of child labour on, 125
- Efficiency: remarks on, 158
- Emigration, 196, 211
- Employers: responsibility for strikes, 184;
- Errand boys, 108;
- Factories: reports of chief inspector, 25, 29, 32, 37, 38, 39, 109–111, 221;
- Factory Acts: beneficial effects, 181, 188, 194, 224, 267;
- Factory girls: an appreciation of, 134;
- Factory work: general remarks on, 133
- Factory workers: their condition compared with home workers, 23, 46
- Fair wage, a: what is a fair wage, 161;
- pessimist view, 212–214
- Fines and deductions, 39, 41, 54
- Fish basket sewing, 108
- Foreign Competition: effect on a minimum wage, 271
- Free Libraries, 225
- Free Trade League, 220
- Gaskell: P, 217
- Germany, 143;
- Gissing: Geo., 72
- Glass works in America, 120–121
- Guardian: The, 210
- Half timers, 112
- Health: of home workers, 17;
- Heavy loads, 110–111
- High wages and cheap production, 260
- “Historical Development of the Factory Acts,” 114
- Hogg: Mrs, 18, 118
- Home Industries for women: report on, 2
- Home Office enquiry, 125
- Home work: report on, 2;
- Home workers: Condition of, 17;
- Hours of work: piece work, 16;
- House of Lords Committee on Early Closing of Shops, 68
- Hutchins: Miss B. L., 114
- Industrial efficiency: effect of Child Labour on, 130–131;
- caused by fair wages, 227
- Industrial Unions of New Zealand, 234
- Ireland: copartnership in, 179
- Ironing, 108
- Irwin: Miss, 3, 17, 66, 67, 68, 69
- Jackman: Marshall, 124, 125
- Jam-making. See Confectionery
- Jarvis family: History of, 7
- Johnson: Dr, 157
- “Juvenile wage earners and their work,” 108, 123
- Kelley: Mrs Florence, 120, 125, 129
- Kid belt making, 107
- Labour and other commodities: difference in essence between, 171
- Labour co-partnerships, 176;
- in Ireland, 179
- Laundries: long hours in, 31
- Laundry work, 108
- Lead poisoning: risk of, 37
- Legislation for a minimum wage: need of, 272
- Living wage: estimate of, 149
- London County Council: as employer, 100;
- Longman’s Magazine, 206
- MacDonald: J. Ramsay, 65
- Manchester physicians’ report on child labour in 1784, 112
- “Manufacturing population of England,” 217
- Martindale: Miss, Inspector of Factories, 111
- Match box making, 3, 7;
- child workers, 106
- Matching girls, 109
- Matheson: M. Cécile, 3
- Maxwell: Mr, Scottish Wholesale Co-operative Society, 261, 262
- Maxwell: W. B., 72
- Melbourne Age: The; crusade against sweating, 247
- Minimum wage: legislation in New Zealand, 231–246;
- Miscellaneous trades, 21
- Mitchell: John, 149–151
- Moral aspect of shop assistant’s life, 72
- Moral effect of child labour, 127–131
- Nail and chain making, 12
- National Anti-Sweating League, 261
- National aspect of better conditions, 192
- National income, 195
- National Union of Shop Assistants, etc., 55
- New Zealand: state arbitration, 231–239;
- Non-competitive systems, 176
- Non-producers, 195
- Novels: showing shop assistant’s life, 72
- Old age pension: in Australia, 256
- Omnibus men: drivers and conductors; licences, 81;
- “Organised labour,” 151
- Ormsby: Sir Lambert, 124
- Over population, 195
- Packing and filling: cocoa, 25;
- Paper-bag making, 11, 24
- Payment, See Wages
- Peel: Sir Robert, 114
- Physical deterioration, 273
- Pipe making, 13
- Potteries: children working in, 114
- Poverty: investigations into, 148–149;
- physical and mental effects on the individual, 273–274
- Railway workers: hours, 77;
- Reeves, W. Pember, 231, 233, 237, 239, 248
- Rochdale pioneers, 178
- Romilly: Sir Samuel, 113
- Rowntree: Seebohm, 148, 149
- Ryan: Father, 149, 151
- Sanitary Acts: competition checked by, 181, 191, 194
- Sanitary conditions: of factories, 33;
- Schoenhof: J., 131, 165, 184, 228
- Scottish Council for Women’s Trades, 3, 126
- Scottish Wholesale Co-operative Society, 261
- Shann: Geo., M.A., 3
- Shirt making, 10, 144
- Shop assistants: living in, 48;
- Small: Prof. Albion, 149
- Spiers & Pond, Ltd., 70
- Squire, Miss: Inspector of Factories, 35, 36
- State arbitration in New Zealand, 231;
- success of, 239
- Steel covering, 108
- Street trading by children, 109
- Strikes, 183, 184;
- in the colonies, 232
- String bag making, 107
- “Sweating”: definition of the term, 1;
- Tailoring, 29;
- wages in New Zealand, 244
- Tariff Commission, 220, 225, 226
- Tattersall: Mr W., 222
- Temperance, 198, 211
- Temperature: extremes of, 40;
- in cotton factories, 223–224
- Textile trades: Children’s work, 110–111, 112–113
- Thear: Miss, Inspector of Factories, Victoria, 256
- Thomas: Dr, 123
- Thrift among working classes, 201;
- not advisable, 202–205
- Tooth brush making, 18, 20, 107
- Toy making, 12
- Trade unions, 182, 184;
- Underpaid worker: cost to the nation, 170–171
- Underpayment: how it comes about, 144–160;
- not caused by inefficiency, 159
- United States: see America
- Ventilation, 224
- Verney, Mr: Inspector of Factories, 222
- Vines, Miss: Inspector of Factories, 31, 37
- Wages: match box making, 5, 7;
- shirt making, 10, 144–145;
- paper-bag making, 12;
- toy making, 13;
- clay pipe making, 14;
- ball covering, 16;
- brush making, 20;
- miscellaneous trades, 21;
- packing and filling, 23, 26, 27, 28;
- machinists, 41;
- shop assistants, 60;
- waitresses, 70;
- female clerks and bookkeepers, 71;
- railway porters, 77;
- omnibus men, 83;
- motor omnibus men, 92;
- children’s wages for home work, 105–106;
- wages, how determined, 152;
- what is a fair wage, 161;
- articles of dress, 188;
- textile workers, 218–219;
- tailoresses in New Zealand, 244;
- factory wages in Australia, 252–254;
- high wages and cheap production, 260–261
- Waitresses: in restaurants, 67;
- Washing appliances, 37
- Watts: Alderman; of Manchester, 123
- Weaving, 14
- Webb: Catherine, 176
- Webb: Mrs Sydney, 114
- Wells: H. G., 72
- Whiteley’s, Ltd.: William, 54
- Women in the printing trades, 65
- Women’s Co-operative Guild, 180
- “Women’s employment in shops,” 67, 69
- Women’s Industrial Council, 2, 3, 6, 7, 17, 56, 72, 188, 189
- “Women’s work and wages,” 3, 39, 65
- Women workers: difficulty of organisation, 185, 186
- Wood chopping, 107
- Wood polishing, 107
- Woodward: S. W., 130
- Work done below cost price, 164
- Worth: meanings of, 162
- Zola: E., 72