Wage-earning class, rise of, [40], [69]

Wages, [71], [79], [106], [119], [120], [150], [174], [195], [206], [220], [224], [230]

Walter de Henley on farming, [42], [44]

War, South African, [225], [230]

War, the Thirty Years’, [134]; the Continental, [171], [195]

—— cost of, [173]

Wars and industry, [81], [122]–129, [134], [166], [167]–175, [216], [224]

“Waste,” the, [6], [20]

Watt’s inventions, [138], [160], [165]

Weavers’ gilds, [29], [54]