Decay of hand-spinning, _section_, 39 Decline of domestic manufacture, 35 Decrease of employment in wartime, statistics of, 241, 266 Deductions, 292 Deficiencies, educational, 169 Defoe, Daniel, 24 Delays in labour legislation, causes of, 186 Deloney, 6 Dependents on women-workers, 145-6, 233-4 Derby, 27, 95 Derbyshire, 29, 97 _Detroit Free Press_, 145 Development of capitalistic industry, _section_, 17 Development of women's employment, 61 Devon, 51 Devotion and self-sacrifice of women, 165 Difficulties in organising women, 115, 139, 151, 154, 164, 169 _Digby Mysteries_, 6 Dismissal without notice, 125 Disproportion of women, 77 Distaff, the, Chap. I., _section_ Textiles, 5 Divergent views on factory system, 45 Division among the weavers, 97 Dock and General Workers' Union, 126 Dock Strike, 128 Doherty, 55 Domestic workers, statistics of, 84, 86 little organisation among, 168 Dorset, 51 Dover, New Hampshire, strikes at, 141 Drawers, 126 Dressmakers, little organisation among, 168 Dressmaking, 64, 65, 87, 118 factory, _d.-m._, 72, 220 Drudgery a survival, 203-4 Dundee, 115 Dunlop, Jocelyn, 15, 16 Dust-extractor, 59 Dust in rope-works, 129 Early civilisation, 1-3 Early factories, conditions in, 50, 52, 181 Early manufactures, characteristics of, 47 Earning power of women, 71-2 Earnings and Hours Enquiry, 214 Earnings in 1770, 33 of women, Chap. VI. insufficient for health, 229 East End workers, 128 East Lancashire Amalgamated Society, 96 East London, 130 East Meon, Church of, 6 Economic Independence, 80 Economic Section of British Association, 64, 253 _n._ Economic self-dependence, 81 Eden, Sir F., 39 Edmonton, ammunition workers at, 130-31 Education by Trade Unions, 159 Educational deficiencies, 169 Edward VI., 21 Effects, moral, of Trade Unions among women, 153 Effects of the War on the employment of women, Chap. VII. Egotistic refinement, 198 Eight-hour Leagues, 143 Elements of Statistics, 228 Elizabeth, 19 Employers oppose Unionism, 151 Engineering, 64 Enlightenment of women, 194 Ephemeral character of Women's Unions, 150 Equal chance, an, 145 Equal pay for equal work, 144, 152, 172, 255 Equal rates of pay for women, 93 Equality of opportunity, 196 Erdmann, Dr., 167 Essex, 25 _n._ Exclusion of women, _section_, 189 from local governing bodies, 198 Exeter, Justices of, 20 Expansion of trade, 18 Experience in sorting wool, 21 Fachverein der Mäntelnäherinnen, 155 Factory, the, _section_, 43 Factory Act, the first, 185 of 1833, 45, 181 of 1844, 1847, 1850, 1864, 1867, 1878, 1901, 182 prejudice against the, 120 what it has done, _section_, 181 Factory system, beginning of, 21, 22 disliked, 42 Fall of prices in weaving, 26, 37, 39 Fall River, strike at, 143-4