Warden, 7 Warehouse work, 67 Warner, Townsend, 23 Warping, 112 Watch-making, 64 Water-power, 18 Weavers' Amalgamation, 97, 103, 205 Weavers become clothiers, 17 become wage-earners, 17 Weavers' Committees, 104-7, 108 Company, 13 Gild, 13 secretaries, 101-2, 104, 106 Union, 96, 111, 126 Weavers in Scotland, General Association of, 92 of Edinburgh, 14 Weaving as a woman's trade, _section_, 12 Weaving, operation of, 97-8 Webb's _History of Trade Unionism_, 93 _n._ Weft, 98 Wells, H. G., 207 West Riding Fancy Union, 92 What is and what might be, 200 What the Factory Act has done, _section_, 181 Wider views of Union officials, 205 Widows, employment of, 90-91 carry on husbands' business, 17 Wigan, 108 Wilson, Mrs. C. M., 23 _n._ Wiltshire, 21, 51 Winders, 111, 126, 294 _Winter's Tale_, 6 Winterton, 29 Witch, the, 1 Woman wage-earner, _section_, 53, and Chap. VI. "Women and the Trades," 61 Women bakers, carders, brewers, spinners, workers of wool, etc., 13 bookbinders, 123 chain-makers, 134 Women exempt from craft restriction, 12 Women, an important factor in industry, 21 as individual earners, 25 as subordinate helpers, 178 Women Factory Inspectors, xiv, 109, 182, 183, 282-93 appointment of, opposed, 197 reinforcement of, needed, xvi Women in an inferior position, 16 in industrial transition, 19 in the great industry, 203 Women only, Unions of, 118, 162, 171-2 Women weavers displacing men, 13 Women's employment, Central Committee on, 247 Women's movement and the labour movement, 199 Women's Rights Party in Germany, 154 Women's secretariat in German Commission of Trade Unions, 158 Women's Trade Union League, 118, _section_, 119, 175 Women's Trade Union League in America, 153 Women's wages, Chap. VI. Wood, G. H., 229 Wool and worsted, 115 Wool, _section textiles_, 5 Woollen and clothing trades, _section_, 243 Work done by women, three classes of, 65 Work done for wages outside the home, 22, 23 Workers' Educational Association, 74 Workers' Union, 140 Workrooms for unemployed women, 249 Workshop and factory, wages in, compared, 219 _Worsted, History of_, 25 _n._ Wright, Thomas, 7, 9 Wyatt, Paul, 33 Yarn, demand for, 32, 248 York, 23 Yorkshire, 18, 97 women, 115 Young, Arthur, 23, 29 Zimmern, A. E., 265 _n._ THE END _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_. FOOTNOTES: [1] _I.e._ Cots or cottages. [2] Departmental Committee on Sickness Benefit Claims, Evidence 40446, Bondfield. [3] _Ibid._ 40462, Bondfield. [4] 37 Edw. III. c. 6, quoted in Cunningham's _Growth of Industry and Commerce_, I. 353 _n._ (5th ed.). [5] See a volume of tracts at the British Museum numbered 1851, c. 10. [6] S.P. Dom. Eliz. 1593, vol. 244. Reprinted in _English Economic History_, Bland, Brown and Tanney, p. 336.