Colonial laws, regarding servants, 22-48; law in Virginia binding servants coming without indenture, 23, 24; in North Carolina, 24, n.; in Maryland, 25, n.; in West New Jersey, 25, n.; laws regulating wages, 30, 31; to prevent pilfering on part of servants, 32; laws not specifically for household employees, but for all servants, 37; law to protect servants against ill-treatment from masters, 38-40; to protect masters, 40-46; latter more specific, 40; relate chiefly to runaways, 40; penalties for harboring runaways, 41-43; rewards for capture of runaways, 43, 44; means for prevention of runaways, 44; laws for infliction of corporal punishment upon servants, 45; for prevention of bartering with servants, 45, 46; examples of laws placing oppressive restrictions upon servants, 47; laws to prohibit freeing servants, 47, 48. Colonial period of domestic service, see Domestic service. Colored servants, see Negro domestic employees, Negro slaves. Competition of other industries with domestic service, 68. Compulsory insurance adds to wages in Germany and in Belgium, 292. Concentration of capital and labor, an industrial tendency, 194. Connecticut, redemptioners in, 20, 28; instances of troubles with servants in colonial times, 36; colonial law protecting servants against injury from master, 39, n.; fixing penalties upon those who harbored runaways, 42; fixing reward for capturing runaways, 44; allowing corporal punishment, 45; to prevent barter with servants, 46; to prevent freeing of servants, 48. Contracts, system of, in Germany, 281-283. Convicts, transported, among the early colonial settlers, 17, 18; as servants, 19; term of service, 19. See also Redemptioners. “Cook,” as an appellation unobjectionable, 208. Cooks, average wages of, statistics, 89, 94-97; receive highest wages, 90; give better satisfaction than general servants, 91; social ostracism of, instance, 153, n.; as skilled workers, should not be called “servants,” 208. Cooks and laundresses, average wages of, statistics, 89, 94-96. Co-operation, an industrial tendency, 196. Co-operation, in the family _versus_ co-operation with other families, 232. Co-operation, unconscious, characteristic of modern industry, 212; allowed to operate by having work done out of the house, 226. Co-operative boarding, 191, 192; benefits of, 192.