[19] Ibid., 9.
[20] The former “labour exchanges,” managed by the Board of Trade, became “employment exchanges” when the Ministry of Labour was created in December, 1916, and they were transferred to its jurisdiction.
[21] Fabian Society, “The War, Women, and Unemployment,” Fabian Tract No. 178, 1916, p. 19.
[22] Comprehensive reports on the state of employment in September and October, 1914, and in February, 1915, have been issued by the Board of Trade [Cds. 7703, 7755, and 7850]. The “Central Committee on Women’s Employment” has issued an interim report [Cd. 7748]. Miss Edith Abbott gives an excellent review of the extent of unemployment and the work of the Central Committee in the Journal of Political Economy for July, 1917. (“The War and Women’s Work in England,” pp. 641-678.)
[23] British Association for the Advancement of Science, Credit, Industry, and the War, pp. 75 and 137.
[24] Great Britain, Report of the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry, April, 1919, pp. 80-81. [Cd. 135.]
[25] Vide [Appendix D, 236].
[26] Report of the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry, April, 1919, 80.
[27] British Association for the Advancement of Science, Credit, Industry, and the War, 71.
[28] Great Britain Home Office, Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops for 1914, 33.