Moral aspect of shop assistant’s life, 72 Moral effect of child labour, 127–131 Nail and chain making, 12 National Anti-Sweating League, 261 National aspect of better conditions, 192 National income, 195 National Union of Shop Assistants, etc., 55 New Zealand: state arbitration, 231–239; industrial unions of, 234; arbitration court, 235, 236; wages in, 244 Non-competitive systems, 176 Non-producers, 195 Novels: showing shop assistant’s life, 72 Old age pension: in Australia, 256 Omnibus men: drivers and conductors; licences, 81; wages, 83; expenses, 83; liability for accidents, 85; drivers and conductors of motor omnibuses; hours of work, 92; wages, 92; breakdowns, 94; uniform, 98; spies, 99; general remarks, 140, 143, 164 “Organised labour,” 151 Ormsby: Sir Lambert, 124 Over population, 195 Packing and filling: cocoa, 25; tea, 26; jam, 26; cartridges, 26 Paper-bag making, 11, 24 Payment, _See_ Wages Peel: Sir Robert, 114 Physical deterioration, 273 Pipe making, 13 Potteries: children working in, 114 Poverty: investigations into, 148–149; physical and mental effects on the individual, 273–274 Railway workers: hours, 77; porters’ wages, 77; “blacklisting,” 78; general remarks on, 140, 164 Reeves, W. Pember, 231, 233, 237, 239, 248 Rochdale pioneers, 178 Romilly: Sir Samuel, 113 Rowntree: Seebohm, 148, 149 Ryan: Father, 149, 151 Sanitary Acts: competition checked by, 181, 191, 194 Sanitary conditions: of factories, 33; shop assistants’ quarters, 58; high standard in cotton factories, 223 Schoenhof: J., 131, 165, 184, 228 Scottish Council for Women’s Trades, 3, 126 Scottish Wholesale Co-operative Society, 261 Shann: Geo., M.A., 3 Shirt making, 10, 144 Shop assistants: living in, 48; code of rules, 54; wages, 60; “premiums,” 60; commissions, 62; condition in Scotland, 66; general remarks, 138 Small: Prof. Albion, 149 Spiers & Pond, Ltd., 70 Squire, Miss: Inspector of Factories, 35, 36 State arbitration in New Zealand, 231; success of, 239 Steel covering, 108 Street trading by children, 109 Strikes, 183, 184; in the colonies, 232 String bag making, 107 “Sweating”: definition of the term, 1; not confined to cheap goods, 22, 142; general remarks, 132, 143; not unknown in the colonies, 230; a source of weakness to nations, 266–269 Tailoring, 29; wages in New Zealand, 244 Tariff Commission, 220, 225, 226 Tattersall: Mr W., 222 Temperance, 198, 211 Temperature: extremes of, 40; in cotton factories, 223–224 Textile trades: Children’s work, 110–111, 112–113 Thear: Miss, Inspector of Factories, Victoria, 256 Thomas: Dr, 123 Thrift among working classes, 201; not advisable, 202–205 Tooth brush making, 18, 20, 107 Toy making, 12