Knight, Madame, on treatment of servants in 1704, 28. Labor, division of, in women’s work, caused by factory system, 11; has resulted in unequal distribution of work, 13, 14; in household employments only partially accomplished, 15; characteristic of modern industry, 212; results in greater variety of products, 222. Labor of women more productive through specialization of household employments, 231, 232. Labor question, domestic service a part of, 129, 264. Laundresses, average wages, statistics, 89, 94-97. See also Cooks. Laundry work, better done out of the house, 222, 223; done out of the house in Europe, 280. Laws protecting domestic employees, 138. Laws, colonial, see Colonial laws. Leclaire, M., on knowledge of the workman, 200. _Leclaire, Maison_, 237. Legal relations between employer and employee in Europe, 281-286. Legal status of domestic employees, 138. Levasseur, M., on proportion of failures among business firms, 245. Library strictures in regard to domestic employees, 154, n. Licenses for domestic employees, 177, 178. Livery, absence of, in early times at the North, 57, 61. See also Cap and apron. Living, cost of, affected by specialization of household employments, 230. London, domestic service in, 128, n. London South Metropolitan Gas Company, profit sharing in, 239. Lowell, J. R., on Indian servants, 51, n.; on “help,” 55; on influx of Irish domestic employees, 63. Lyman, O. E., on legal status of domestic employees, 138, n. Mackay, Charles, on “help,” 58, n. “Maid” as substitute for “servant,” 156; unobjectionable, 208. Maid-of-all-work, present requirements of, 228. Maine, high wages of redemptioners in, 28, n.; instance related by John Winter of unsatisfactory service in, 33, 34. Maine, Sir Henry Sumner, on equality, 211. _Maison Leclaire_, 237. Manufacturing industries, number of women in, in Massachusetts, 10, n.; women employees in, largely outnumber men, 10, n.; greater demand for servants created by increase of, 11; manufacturing industries utilize ignorant labor, 14; relative number of domestic employees diminished by, 87. Marketing, made a specialty by one person for many families, 225, 226. Martineau, Harriet, on democratic condition of service in America, 55, 56. Maryland, transported convicts in, 18; freewillers in, 19; redemptioners in, 21, 25; colonial law regulating wages of redemptioners in, 31; to protect servants in, 38, n.; concerning runaways in, 41; concerning those who harbored runaways in, 43; fixing reward for capturing runaways in, 44; preventing barter with servants in, 46; redemptioners who rose to distinction in, 48, n.