Polish women weavers, strike of, 149 Polynesians, 2 Poor Law, its effect on wages, 21 of Elizabeth, 32 Possibilities of modern industry, 204 of State control, _section_, 204 Potential changes of the industrial revolution, _section_, 200 Potteries, 29 Potters, 146 Power sewing-machine, 63 Power-loom, 35 introduction of the, 55 Premature employment, effects of, 62 Preparing material, 65 Present position of the woman worker, _section_, 183 Press-work, 66 Preston, 96 Primitive industries, 2, 3 Printing, 66, 116 Professional women, scope for, 263 _n._ Professions for women, 80 Prohibition to combine, 80 of women's employment, 14 Proportion of women in Unions, 147 Prosperity of spinners, 38 Protective and Provident League, 119-24 Psychological difficulties in organising women, 164 Public spirit, lack of, 170 Queen, the, 247 Radcliffe Society, 96 Radcliffe, William, 33 Rag-cutting, 65 Ramsay, Isle of Man, 93 Reaction in war-time, 264 Reciprocal movement between spinners and weavers, 40 Reed, 97 Reeling, 107 Reforms started by industrial employers, 53 Registrar-General, 75, 76 Relative wages of men and women, 231-6 Replacement of men by women, 55-56, 252, 255 Results the War may have, _section_, 256 Richards, factory inspector, 49 Rights and privileges of women, 105 Ring-room doffers, 113 Ring-spinners, 114 Ring-winders, 111 Ring-winding, 107 Roberts, Lewis, 32 Rock, Maria, 5 Rogers, Thorold, 4, 5 Rope-makers, 129 Sadler, M. T., 185 St. Crispin, Daughters of, 142, 144 San Francisco, 147, 153 Sanitary conditions in non-textile trades, 62 Sanitation in town and country, 50, 51 Schreiner, Olive, 69 Schultze-Gävernitz, 44, 157 Screw manufactories, 62 Seamstresses, 146 Segregation of women from affairs, 109 Sewing women, 143 Shaftesbury, Lord, 185, 186 Shakespeare quoted, 19, 25 _n._ Shann, G., 195 _n._ Sheffield, 64 plated ware trade, 30 Shifting of industrial processes, 44 Shirt-making, 223 Shock of War, _section_, 239 Shop Assistants' Union, 140, 176 Shortage of women's labour, 245 Shorter hours, effects of, 202 movement for, 109-10 Shuttleworth Accounts, 11 Shyness of women, 109 Sick benefit, 119, 131, 188 Sick visitors, 108, 176 Sickness Benefit Claims, Committee on, xv Silk, _section_, 26 Simcox, Edith, 123 Sisterhood, the, 92, 271 _n._ Slater, G., 180 _n._ Small-ware weavers, 92 Snowden, Keighley, 136 _n._ Soap, 63 "Social and Economic History," 36 Social Democratic Party, 156 _Social England_, 29 Social influences, 163, 166, 170 Social strata in the factory, 67 Socialism and women, 163-4 Solidarity between men and women, 196 Sorting clothes in laundries, 65 Southey, 50 "Spear-half," 5 Speeding up, 58-9, 110, 281 Spell of work, 183