Influence of Unions on conditions, 153 Injury from prolonged standing, 186, 187 Insanitary conditions in confectioners' workrooms, 130 Inspection of factories impossible for women, 197 Inspectors, factory, 181 women appointed as, 182 Instability of status, 152 Insurance Act, 103, 108, 116, 126, 131, 176, 188, 205 Interdenominational Unions, 161 Interests, interlocking of, 173 "Interkonfessionelle" Unions, 164 International Association for Labour Legislation, 125 International Typographical Union, 143 International Workers' Congress, 123 Inventions, 43 Ipswich, 65 Christ's Hospital at, 21 Ireland, 224 Irons on apprentices, 274 Ironworks, a fifteenth-century, 29 Isolation of women, 164-5 Jacquard's loom, 42 Jam-making, 135 James, Clara, 128, 130 James, John, 25 _n._ James, William, 207 Jones, Lloyd, 106 Kaffirs, 2 Kamtchatdals, 2 Kay, 33 Kendal, 39 Kettering, 224 King, Mr., 120 Knights of Labour, 144, 145 Knitting-machine, 25 _Korrespondenzblatt_, 158 Labour, an important factor in production, 136 Labour Commission, 61, 63, 129, 170, 197, 198 Labour League, Women's, 177, 208 Labour legislation, weakness of and delays in, 186 Labour movement, 127 Labourers, Statute of, 4 Lacquering, 63 Lancashire, 61, 74, 96, 97, 102 cotton spinners of, 93 Lapsley, 29 Lassalle, 158 Laundresses, Union of, 122 Laundry Workers' International Union, 147 Law, Alice, 36 Lawrence, Mass., 149 Lead mines, women in, 29 poisoning, 288 Lee, inventor of knitting-machine, 25 Leeds, 23, 39, 116, 224 Leicester, 92, 224 Leland's _Itinerary_, 21 Lenience of Magistrate, 293 Levant Company, 32 Lighting of work-places, 184, 284 Linen and jute, 115, 242 List prices, 99, 100, 114 Liverpool, 173 Locked in factory, 129-30 Lombe, John, 27 London, 126, 242 milliners, 168 Trades Council, 128 London weavers, 13, 14 Women's Trades Council, 123 Loom, the, 5 Low wages of women, consolation for, 57 Lowell, Female Labour Reform Association at, 142 strikes at, 141 Union, 142 Lye, 136, 137 Lytton, Lady Constance, 200 Macarthur, Mary, xv, 131 Macclesfield, 28 MacDonald, J. R., 195 _n._ Machine work, 66 Machinery and skill, 68-9 and women's employment, 69-70 Mackworth, Sir H., 29 Maladjustment and Readjustment, _section_, 245 Male Weavers' Union, 143-4 Malingering, xv, 188 Malmesbury Abbey, 21-2 Manchester, 31, 32, 47, 50, 55, 93, 126, 173, 176, 224 societies, 126-7 spinners, 92 Women's Trade Union Council, 139 Women's War Interests Committee, 256, 296 Mantoux, 23, 41 Manufactures and Commerce, Select Committee on, 54 Markham, Gervase, 14 Marriage, _section_, 78 and organisation, 151 decreasing prospect of, 196, 256 prospect of, its effects on young men and women, 151, 169-70