11Shyness of women,109Sick benefit,119,131,188Sick visitors,108,176Sickness Benefit Claims, Committee on,xvSilk,section,26Simcox, Edith,123Sisterhood, the,92,271n.Slater, G.,180n.Small-ware weavers,92Snowden, Keighley,136n.Soap,63“Social and Economic History,”36Social Democratic Party,156Social England,29Social influences,163,166,170Social strata in the factory,67Socialism and women,163-4Solidarity between men and women,196Sorting clothes in laundries,65Southey,50“Spear-half,”5Speeding up,58-9,110,281Spell of work,183“Spindle-half,”5Spinning, a family occupation,24by young women,9for the unemployed,21jennies,34,42machine invented by Hargreaves,33parties,9Squire, Miss Rose,184Stages in the woman’s career,207Standard of life in Lancashire,60,105,107,187of immigrants,142Standing, effects of persistent,186,275Statistics of domestic workers,84,86of German women in Unions,167of textile workers,87of unemployment in war-time,241,266of wages,Chap. VI.of women in Unions,177of women’s life and employment,Chap. III.Statutory rights of workers,186,204Stay-making,65Steam laundry workers,147Steam power, introduction of,35Stockport,36,108,113strike at,96Strain of modern industry,section,186of work,184,281Strike-breakers,93Strikes,see various industriesin 1911,135Struggle of the crafts,19Stumpe,21Suffolk clothiers, petition of,18Surats,101,280Surplus of women,section,75Survival of previous standards and conditions,section,179Swabia,2Syndicalism,197Tailoresses, increase of,87Union of,122Tailoring,64,221Tailors, Amalgamated Society of,122Tapestry,8Tayler, Dr. L.,2Taylor, Cooke, the elder,48,49,52n.Temple, Sir William,11Textile work, as adjunct to farming,24,33societies,126workers,150workers, statistics of,87workers, wages of,216Textiles,section,5Theodore, St.,8Thüringen,2Times, the,127,128Timidity of social legislation,185Timmins, S.,63Tobacco,63workers in,127Toynbee Hall,127Tracey, Anna,188Trade Boards Act, 1909,20,116,126,131,132,138,183,224,226,245Trade Union Congress,119,120,122,123Traill’sSocial England,29Transformation of some womanly trades,61-2Treasure of Traffike,32Truck Act,184-5,290in Germany,155Twisters,126Typographical Societies,116Umbrella Sewers’ Union,142Underclothing,65Underground, women working,194Unemployment and short time,228Unemployment among women in war-time,240-43Unions, women in,Chaps. IV.andIVa.U.S.A., Labour Commission of,234Unorganised trades,102,126Unorganised workers, movement among,section,127,256Unsuitable work,194,236Unwin, Professor,14,18,19,22Upholsterers,146Ure,44,47Variety of conditions,46,47Ventilation,276Verein zur Vertretung der Interessen der Arbeiterinnen,155Victimisation,96,97,105,139,169Wage census, 1906,Chap. VI.Wage contract,73Wages in seventeenth century,20in miscellaneous trades,225-6of women,Chap. VI.raised in low-class industries,135Wagner, R., quoted,31War, effects of, on employment of women,Chap. VII.War, the, results it may have,section,256Warden,7Warehouse work,67Warner, Townsend,23Warping,112Watch-making,64Water-power,18Weavers’ Amalgamation,97,103,205Weavers become clothiers,17become wage-earners,17Weavers’ Committees,104-7,108Company,13Gild,13secretaries,101-2,104,106Union,96,111,126Weavers in Scotland, General Association of,92of Edinburgh,14Weaving as a woman’s trade,section,12Weaving, operation of,97-8Webb’sHistory of Trade Unionism,93n.Weft,98Wells, H. G.,207West Riding Fancy Union,92What is and what might be,200What the Factory Act has done,section,181Wider views of Union officials,205Widows, employment of,90-91carry on husbands’ business,17Wigan,108Wilson, Mrs. C. M.,23n.Wiltshire,21,51Winders,111,126,294Winter’s Tale,6Winterton,29Witch, the,1Woman wage-earner,section,53, andChap. VI.“Women and the Trades,”61Women bakers, carders, brewers, spinners, workers of wool, etc.,13bookbinders,123chain-makers,134Women exempt from craft restriction,12Women, an important factor in industry,21as individual earners,25as subordinate helpers,178Women Factory Inspectors,xiv,109,182,183,282-93appointment of, opposed,197reinforcement of, needed,xviWomen in an inferior position,16in industrial transition,19in the great industry,203Women only, Unions of,118,162,171-2Women weavers displacing men,13Women’s employment, Central Committee on,247Women’s movement and the labour movement,199Women’s Rights Party in Germany,154Women’s secretariat in German Commission of Trade Unions,158Women’s Trade Union League,118,section,119,175Women’s Trade Union League in America,153Women’s wages,Chap. VI.Wood, G. H.,229Wool and worsted,115Wool,section textiles,5Woollen and clothing trades,section,243Work done by women, three classes of,65Work done for wages outside the home,22,23Workers’ Educational Association,74Workers’ Union,140Workrooms for unemployed women,249Workshop and factory, wages in, compared,219Worsted, History of,25n.Wright, Thomas,7,9Wyatt, Paul,33Yarn, demand for,32,248York,23Yorkshire,18,97women,115Young, Arthur,23,29Zimmern, A. E.,265n.