North Carolina, colonial law regulating wages of redemptioners in,
30, 31;
to protect servants in, 38, n., 39, 40;
concerning runaways in, 41;
fixing reward for capturing runaways in, 43;
regarding corporal punishment of servants in, 45;
to prevent barter with servants in, 45;
to punish feigning of illness or carrying of arms in, 47;
prohibiting setting a servant free in, 47.
Northbrook, Earl of, footman of, tips received by, 160, n.
Norwegians, in the United States, see Swedes and Norwegians.
Oklahoma, fewest domestics employed in, 81.
Organization in household employments, lack of, an industrial
disadvantage, 143.
Oriental Tea Company, Boston, 216, n.
_Outlook_, on feeing, 162, n.
Parlor maids, average wages of, statistics, 90, 97.
Pea-sheller, 214, n.
Peace Dale Manufacturing Company, 238.
Peirce, Mrs., on co-operative housekeeping, 186-188.
Pennsylvania, transported convicts in, 18, n.;
wages of redemptioners in, 29;
colonial law regulating wages of redemptioners in, 30;
purpose of Act of 1700 regarding servants in, 37;
colonial law to protect servants in, 40;
regarding runaways in, 41;
fixing reward for capturing runaways in, 43;
to prevent barter with servants in, 46;
forbidding innkeepers to trust servants in, 47.
Personal relation between employer and employee usually alone
regarded, 4, 167;
changed to business relation through specialization of household
employments, 229.
Philadelphia Civic Club, classification of wages by, 268, n.
Placid Club, profit sharing at, 249.
Polly, Mary, indenture of, 23, n., 29.
Poor whites descendants of redemptioners, 49.
Porter, hotel, instance of a fortune acquired by, in fees, 160.
Porters, railway, profit sharing, in case of, advantages—waste
avoided, 244;
feeing abolished, 244, 245.
Posseldt, H., on legal relations between employer and employee in
Prussia, 281, n., 282, n.
Potter, Bishop, on luxury, 265.
Privileges, special, kinds given to employees, 133, 134.
Profit sharing, an industrial tendency, 196;
defined, 236, 237;
history of, 237;
benefits of, in its trial elsewhere, 237-242;
advantages—develops “group of industrial virtues,” 237;
lessons worry, 238;
checks waste, 238;
identifies interest of employer and employee, 238, 239, 247;
not a loss to employer, 239;
applied to domestic service, 240-250, 268, 269;
secures economy of time, material, appliances, 240, 241;
application, methods of, 242-244;
in case of hotel employees and railway porters, 244, 245;
advantages—waste avoided, feeing abolished, 244, 245;
objections raised to, 245-247;
instances of its trial given, 248-250.
Promotion in domestic service rare except in hotels, 141.
Public schools said to over-educate domestics, 179;
introduction of housework into, advocated by some, 179.
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