INDEX

A
Art, Difficulties in the pursuit of, [30].
Army Clothing Factory, [74].
Assistant Mistresses, in High Schools, [9].
Salaries of, [10].
in Elementary Schools, [16].
B
Ballet, The, [33].
Belfast Mill-workers, Deaths of, [127].
Board Schools, Salaries in, [14].
Compared with Voluntary Schools, [16].
Bookbinders’ Union, [71].
C
Carpet manufacture, [107].
Certifying surgeon, Duties of, [152], [158].
Child labour, [105], [122].
in cotton trade, Dr. Tarrop’s report on, [123].
Age limit too low, [165].
Chromo lithography, [37].
Cigar-makers Union, [74].
Success of, [80].
Civil Service, [41].
Pensions in, [42].
Women versus men in, [42].
The Post-office, [42].
Complaints against women, [46].
Clerks, National Union of, [64].
Clerkships, Ordinary, [40].
in shipping firms, [41].
in Civil Service, [41].
Commerce, Subordinate position of women in, [47].
French and American women in, [48].
Consumers’ League, [89].
Cotton manufacture, [95] et seq.
Injurious processes in, [121].
Child labour in, [122].
Combination in, [90], [95].
Crafts, Artistic, [36].
Chromo-lithography, [37].
Hostility of workmen in, [37].
Crape trade, wages in, [106].
D
Dentistry suitable for women, [26].
Deterioration of population, [148].
Directory of Women’s Trades Unions, [90].
Domestic Subjects, [17].
Demand for instruction in, [17].
Lack of common standard, [18].
Opening for women, [18].
Compared with University training, [19].
Dressmakers’, Milliners’, and Mantle-makers’ Union, [73].
Dust, defined, [120].
in shoddy mills, [130].
in potteries, [131].
in white lead, [132].
Respirators against, [139].
E
Elementary Schools, [14].
Salaries of Certificated Mistresses in, [14].
Other salaries, [15].
Salaries under the London School Board, [16].
Elementary versus Secondary Schools, [16].
Training Colleges for, [17].
Employment of women, Blue Book on, [65], [85] et passim.
Experts required in factory inspection, [156].
F
Factory Acts, [150].
Insufficiency of, [152].
Reforms needed in, [157].
Extension of, desirable, [166].
Factory Department, [167].
Farr, Dr., tables of Infant Mortality, [146].
Fiction, [3].
Its remuneration, [4].
Fines, [85].
in shops, [51].
in textile trades, [100].
in the linen trade, [109].
Foreign competition, [88].
G
Gassing in silk manufacture, [130].
Governesses’ salaries, [8].
compared with High Schools, [10].
Greenhow’s, Dr., report on potteries, [132].
H
Half-timers, [165].
Handicrafts, Position of women in, [35].
Health, Economic importance of, [119].
Causes of ill-health, [120].
In various trades, [119] et seq.
High Schools, [9].
Homework in, [10].
Salaries, [9].
Report on salaries, [11].
Agreements, [12].
Church Schools, [12].
Fees, [13].
Home-work, [87].
after factory hours, [163].
Regulation of, [164].
Hosiery trade, [107].
Union, Amalgamated, [80].
Hospital for Women, New, [24].
I
India, Medical women in, [25].
Native students, [25].
Infant mortality, [140] et seq.
in Preston, Leicester, and Blackburn, [141].
Causes of, [144].
Dr. Tatham’s evidence, [145].
Dr. Farr’s tables, [146].
Recent statistics, [147].
Employment of mothers, [160].
J
Jex-Blake, Dr., Medical Women, [23].
Opinion on medicine as a career for women, [24].
Journalism, [6].
Income attainable, [7].
L
Lace trade, [107].
Lancashire and Yorkshire contrasted, [97].
Lancet, The, on seats for shop assistants, [56].
Laundries, Extension of Factory Acts to, [166].
Law, [21].
Miss Orme’s summary, [21].
Conveyancing, [22].
Openings in India, [22].
Lead, White, [viii]., [133] et seq.
in other manufactures, [137].
Linen trade, [108].
Dr. Purdon’s report on, [124].
Deaths in, [127].
Combination attempted, [82], [109].
Dr. Whitaker’s report, [129].
Literature, [3].
Liverpool Tailoresses’ Union, [75], [87].
London School Board, [16].
Lucifer match trade, [137].
M
Machinery, and women’s labour, [110], [113].
Dangerous, [103].
in laundries, [166].
Married women’s labour, [103].
Relation to infant mortality, [145].
Regulation of, [160].
Martineau, Harriet, [3].
Match girls’ strike, [77].
Medicine, [23].
Appointments available, [24].
in India, [25].
Men’s Unions, Attitude of, [10], [37], [85], [117].
Midwifery, present status of, [27].
Midwives’ Institute, [27].
Mines Regulation Act, [153].
Miscellaneous trades, [110].
Mixed Unions, [80].
in Lancashire, [96].
List of, [90].
Mortality, in linen mills, [129].
Infant, [141] et seq.
Age periods, [143].
Mothers, Employment of, [vii]., [160].
Music, [30].
N
Nailmakers, [75].
National Union of Teachers, [16].
Necrosis in lucifer match trade, [137].
Night-work forbidden, [152].
Northern Counties Weavers’ Association, [80].
Nurses’ salaries, [29].
Nursing, conditions of work, [28].
Mistaken notions as to, [28].
Private, [30].
Co-operative, [30].
O
Outwork, Regulation of, [164].
Overtime, [160].
Regulations as to, [161].
Abolition of, desirable, [162].
Oxford Working Women’s Society, [75].
P
Painting, [32].
Black and white drawings, [32].
Philanthropy, Remunerative employment connected with, [20].
Settlements, [21].
Paterson, Emma, [67].
Death of, [76].
Pit-brow women, [xii]., [86].
Phthisis among linen workers, [129].
Pharmacy, [26].
Pocket money, Working for, [88].
Post-office, The, [42].
Number of women employed in, [42].
Clerkships, [43].
Sorterships, [45].
Telegraph learnerships, [45].
Counter-women, [46].
Complaints against counter-women, [46].
Potteries, [131].
White lead in, [137].
Pouce, The, [124].
Preachers, Women, [20].
Purdon’s, Dr., report on linen trade, [124].
R
Religion, Remunerative employment connected with, [20].
Routine clerical work, [39].
Royalties on music, [32].
S
Sanitation, in shops, [57].
in textile trades, [101].
Ventilation, [138].
Shirt and Collar Makers’ Union, [72].
Shoddy fever, [130].
Shop work, Labour Commission Report on, [65].
Shop Hours Regulation Act, [64].
Shop Assistants, [49].
Their grievances, [50].
Wages compared with men’s, [50].
Fines, [51].
Bonuses, [52].
Agreements, [52].
Dismissal, Miss Collet on, [note p. 52].
Long hours, [53].
Regulation of hours, [53].
Standing, [56].
The Lancet on seats, [56].
Insanitary conditions, [57].
“Living in,” [58].
Sundays, [59].
Personal narratives, [60].
Combination among, [63].
Silk manufacture, [106].
Health in, [130].
Stage, The, [32].
Prospects of, [33].
Touring companies, [33].
Remuneration, [33].
Pantomime performers, [34].
Difficulty of progress, [34].
The ballet, [34].
Salaries of dancers, [35].
Supervision, Abuses of, [99].
Sweating system, [77], [112].
T
Tarrop, Dr., report on the cotton trade, [123].
Tatham, Dr., evidence on infant mortality, [145].
Teaching, [7].
Private, [8].
in High Schools, [9] et seq.
Domestic subjects, [17].
Higher teaching posts, [19].
Headships, [19].
Lectureships, [20].
Textile trades, [93].
Lancashire and Yorkshire contrasted, [95].
Other centres, [106].
Overtime forbidden in, [162].
Trade as a career, [48].
The aristocracy in, [48].
Trades Congress, Liverpool, [72].
Women delegates to, [72].
Trades Councils assist women, [78], [81], [86].
Trade Unions, Women’s, [66].
Origin of, [67].
Provincial, [72].
in 1882, [74].
Mixed, in provinces, [80].
Methods of forming, [81].
Difficulties of, [83].
Results, [86].
Directory of, [90].
in Lancashire, [97].
Training, Necessity for, [37].
Truck Act, [168].
Type-writing, [39].
in America, [40].
with Shorthand, [40].
U
Union of Shop Assistants, National, [64].
United Shop Assistants’ Union, [64].
Upholstresses’ Union, [73].
V
Ventilation, [138].
Objections of workers to, [139].
W
Wages, Sketch of Women’s, [113].
Women’s lower than men’s, [42], [50], [97].
Reasons for difference, [112].
Difference artificially kept up, [117].
Results, [ix].
Warehouses, Conditions of life in, [63].
Wages, [63].
Combination in, [64].
Whitaker’s, Dr., report on linen mills, [129].
Women Factory Inspectors, [74 and note].
Women’s Protective and Provident League, [69].
Women’s Trades Union Association, [79].
Women’s Trades Union League, [81].
Women’s Trades Unions reviewed, [76].
Women’s Union Journal, [76].
Writers’ Club, [5].
Y
Yorkshire and Lancashire contrasted, [97].