"Spindle-half," 5 Spinning, a family occupation, 24 by young women, 9 for the unemployed, 21 jennies, 34, 42 machine invented by Hargreaves, 33 parties, 9 Squire, Miss Rose, 184 Stages in the woman's career, 207 Standard of life in Lancashire, 60, 105, 107, 187 of immigrants, 142 Standing, effects of persistent, 186, 275 Statistics of domestic workers, 84, 86 of German women in Unions, 167 of textile workers, 87 of unemployment in war-time, 241, 266 of wages, Chap. VI. of women in Unions, 177 of women's life and employment, Chap. III. Statutory rights of workers, 186, 204 Stay-making, 65 Steam laundry workers, 147 Steam power, introduction of, 35 Stockport, 36, 108, 113 strike at, 96 Strain of modern industry, _section_, 186 of work, 184, 281 Strike-breakers, 93 Strikes, _see various industries_ in 1911, 135 Struggle of the crafts, 19 Stumpe, 21 Suffolk clothiers, petition of, 18 Surats, 101, 280 Surplus of women, _section_, 75 Survival of previous standards and conditions, _section_, 179 Swabia, 2 Syndicalism, 197 Tailoresses, increase of, 87 Union of, 122 Tailoring, 64, 221 Tailors, Amalgamated Society of, 122 Tapestry, 8 Tayler, Dr. L., 2 Taylor, Cooke, the elder, 48, 49, 52 _n._ Temple, Sir William, 11 Textile work, as adjunct to farming, 24, 33 societies, 126 workers, 150 workers, statistics of, 87 workers, wages of, 216 Textiles, _section_, 5 Theodore, St., 8 Thüringen, 2 _Times_, the, 127, 128 Timidity of social legislation, 185 Timmins, S., 63 Tobacco, 63 workers in, 127 Toynbee Hall, 127 Tracey, Anna, 188 Trade Boards Act, 1909, 20, 116, 126, 131, 132, 138, 183, 224, 226, 245 Trade Union Congress, 119, 120, 122, 123 Traill's _Social England_, 29 Transformation of some womanly trades, 61-2 _Treasure of Traffike_, 32 Truck Act, 184-5, 290 in Germany, 155 Twisters, 126 Typographical Societies, 116 Umbrella Sewers' Union, 142 Underclothing, 65 Underground, women working, 194 Unemployment and short time, 228 Unemployment among women in war-time, 240-43 Unions, women in, Chaps. IV. and IV.A U.S.A., Labour Commission of, 234 Unorganised trades, 102, 126 Unorganised workers, movement among, _section_, 127, 256 Unsuitable work, 194, 236 Unwin, Professor, 14, 18, 19, 22 Upholsterers, 146 Ure, 44, 47 Variety of conditions, 46, 47 Ventilation, 276 Verein zur Vertretung der Interessen der Arbeiterinnen, 155 Victimisation, 96, 97, 105, 139, 169 Wage census, 1906, Chap. VI. Wage contract, 73 Wages in seventeenth century, 20 in miscellaneous trades, 225-6 of women, Chap. VI. raised in low-class industries, 135 Wagner, R., quoted, 31 War, effects of, on employment of women, Chap. VII. War, the, results it may have, _section_, 256