Children: as home workers, 104; unpunctual at school through home work, 105; babies’ shoe making, 105, 108; dodging educational authorities, 106; working all night, 106; match box making, 106, 108; string bag making, 107; tooth brush making, 107; kid belt making, 107; wood chopping, 107; wood polishing, 107; steel covering, 108; fish basket sewing, 108; in small laundries, 108; half timers, 112; errand boys, 108; Saturday and evening boys, 108; barbers’ lather boys, 108; matching girls, 109; street trading, 109; their labour of little use to them later in life, 109; boys working in bake houses, 109; in brick-fields, 110; heavy loads, 110–111; in textile trades, 110–111, 112; in the potteries, 114; general remarks on child labour, 140 Civil Service Stores, 177 Clerks and Bookkeepers, 71, 138 Committee on wage-earning children, 108 Competition, free: its effect upon labour, 166; checks upon, 195 Confectionery, 29, 32, 110 Consumers: Associations of, 176 Consumers’ League, A: impractibility of, 205–211; in America, 210; influence on public opinion, 210 Co-operation: Industrial, 176, 177, 180 Co-operative Stores, 201, 202 Co-operative Union, 180 Cost of labour: recognition of its true cost, 173 Cotton mills: children’s work, 110–111, 112–113 Cotton trade: not natural to Britain, 214–217; condition of workers in 1830, 217; prosperity increased under higher wages, 219; in Bristol, 227 “Cotton Trade Circular,” 222 Cotton workers: educational improvement of, 225 Crabtree: Mr, Inspector of Factories, 221 Cuthbertson: Miss, Inspector of Factories, Victoria, 256 _Daily News_, 59, 60 _Daily News_: Sweated Industries Exhibition, 10, 18, 142, 148 Danger of Fire, 35 Dockers’ Union, 135 Dressmaking, 29, 32 Drink and Poverty: some facts about, 198; lessened by shorter hours, 200 Early marriages: reason for, among working class, 197 Economy of high wages, 165, 184, 228 Edgworth: Maria, 115 Education: effect of child labour on, 125 Efficiency: remarks on, 158 Emigration, 196, 211 Employers: responsibility for strikes, 184; duty to pay a fair wage, 187; in cotton trade, 225; in Bristol, 227 Errand boys, 108; Saturday and evening workers, 108; barbers’ lather boys, 108 Factories: reports of chief inspector, 25, 29, 32, 37, 38, 39, 109–111, 221; in Australia, 252–254, 256 Factory Acts: beneficial effects, 181, 188, 194, 224, 267; in Australia, 247; evasion of, 255 Factory girls: an appreciation of, 134; manners of, 136; code of honour, 137 Factory work: general remarks on, 133 Factory workers: their condition compared with home workers, 23, 46 Fair wage, a: what is a fair wage, 161; pessimist view, 212–214 Fines and deductions, 39, 41, 54 Fish basket sewing, 108 Foreign Competition: effect on a minimum wage, 271 Free Libraries, 225