[7] Night work in the textile trades was prohibited for women by the factory legislation of 1844. The custom disappeared gradually in Great Britain and other countries. Then it was finally banished by international agreement from twelve European countries at the International Conference of Bonn, 1906.
[8] The three systems of employment adopted are as follows—
- One shift of 13-14 hours (the overtime system);
- Two shifts of 12 hours;
- Three shifts of 8 hours.
The report strongly recommends the universal adoption of the 8-hour shift system.
[9] See The Truth about Woman (pp. 247-270), where this difference between the sexes is treated from a different point of view.
[10] “The Insects’ Homer,” by Maurice Maeterlinck, Fortnightly Review, October 1912.
[11] Fabre, “The Leaf Cutters,” English Review, March 1915.
[12] These cases are taken from Pycraft, The Infancy of Animals, and the different works of Fabre, Social Life in the Insect World, The Life and Love of the Insect, Insect Life, etc.
[13] See article by J. Arthur Thomson in The New Statesman, November 1915.
[14] Not all the scarabees live to see the adult growth of their children. This is done, as Fabre’s observations have established by the Spanish Copris and some related dung-beetles, which are unique among non-social insects, inasmuch as the mother survives to see the emergence and complete metamorphosis of the family for whom she and her husband have so unremittingly toiled.