had more 'lining up' and other work to do in consequence, so nobody was turned off." So far I have adverted to only one of the problems which are elucidated by this investigation. A sense of proportion might require that I should dwell on other topics of great interest such as home work and the work of married women, the technique of the industries connected with printing which the Editor has described minutely, and the statistics relating to women's wages, in the treatment of which a master hand, that of Mr. A. L. Bowley, may be recognised. But I must not go on like the chairman who with a lengthy opening address detains an audience eager to hear the principal speaker. I will only in conclusion express the hope that the Committee which has obtained such useful results may be enabled to prosecute further investigations with like diligence. F. Y. EDGEWORTH. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION xv I. I. THE TRADES DESCRIBED 1 II. WOMEN IN THE TRADES 17 III. WOMEN'S WORK AND ORGANISATION 24 IV. MEN AND WOMEN AS WORKERS 44 V. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING 55 VI. LEGISLATION 69 VII. WOMEN AND MACHINERY 94 VIII. HOME WORK 99 IX. MARRIED AND UNMARRIED 102 X. WAGES 113 II.--APPENDICES. I. POINTS UPON WHICH ENQUIRIES WERE MADE 139 II. DESCRIPTIONS OF CERTAIN TYPICAL FIRMS 141 III. GENERAL GLASGOW REPORT 170 IV. WOMEN IN THE PRINTING TRADES IN BIRMINGHAM 179 V. TABLES OF INDIVIDUAL EARNINGS FOR CONSECUTIVE WEEKS THROUGH LENGTHENED PERIODS 184 VI. MR. DUNNING'S STATEMENT OF WAGES, 1849 199 VII. TABLE SHOWING NUMBER OF MALES AND FEMALES ENGAGED IN THESE TRADES AT VARIOUS AGES IN 1901 203 INDEX 205 INTRODUCTION. The investigation upon which this book is based was undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council; the Royal Statistical Society, the Royal Economic Society, and the Hutchinson Trustees consenting to be represented on the Committee responsible for the work. Upon this Committee, the Women's Industrial Council was represented by Miss A. Black, Miss C. Black, Mrs. Hammond, Mr. Stephen N. Fox, and Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald; the Royal Statistical Society by Mr. J. A. Baines; the Royal Economic Society by Professor F. Y. Edgeworth, and the Hutchinson Trustees by Mr. A. L. Bowley. Mrs. Hogg also represented the Women's Industrial Council up to her death in 1900.