Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/womenswork00bulluoft Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). Social Questions of To-Day Edited by H. De B. gibbins, M.A. WOMEN’S WORK * * * * * * SOCIAL QUESTIONS OF TO-DAY. _Edited by H. de B. GIBBINS, M.A._ Crown 8vo., 2_s._ 6_d._ A series of volumes upon these topics of social, economic, and industrial interest that are at the present moment foremost in the public mind. Each volume is written by an author who is an acknowledged authority upon the subject with which he or she deals, and who treats the question in a thoroughly sympathetic but impartial manner, with special reference to the historic aspect of the subject. _The following Volumes of the Series are now ready._ =1. TRADE UNIONISM--NEW AND OLD.= G. HOWELL, M.P., Author of _The Conflicts of Capital and Labour_. Second Edition. =2. PROBLEMS OF POVERTY=: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor. J. A. HOBSON, M.A. =3. THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT TO-DAY.= G. J. HOLYOAKE, Author of _The History of Co-operation_. =4. MUTUAL THRIFT.= Rev. J. FROME WILKINSON, M.A., Author of _The Friendly Society Movement_. =5. THE COMMERCE OF NATIONS.= C. E. BASTABLE, LL.D., Professor of Political Economy in the University of Dublin. =6. THE ALIEN INVASION.= W. H. WILKINS, B.A., Secretary to the Association for Preventing the Immigration of Destitute Aliens. (With an Introductory Note by the Right Reverend the Bishop of Bedford.) =7. THE RURAL EXODUS=: Problems of Village Life. P. ANDERSON GRAHAM. =8. LAND NATIONALISATION.= HAROLD COX, B.A. =9. A SHORTER WORKING-DAY.= R. A. HADFIELD, and H. DE B. GIBBINS, M.A. =10. BACK TO THE LAND.= HAROLD E. MOORE, F.S.I. =11. TRUSTS, POOLS, AND CORNERS.= J. STEPHEN JEANS. =12. FACTORY LEGISLATION.= R. W. COOKE TAYLOR, Author of _The Modern Factory System_, _etc._ =13. WOMEN’S WORK.= LADY DILKE, AMY BULLEY, and MARGARET WHITLEY. =14. THE STATE AND ITS CHILDREN.= GERTRUDE TUCKWELL. _Other Volumes are in preparation._ METHUEN & CO., 36, ESSEX STREET, W.C. * * * * * * WOMEN’S WORK by MISS A. AMY BULLEY and MISS MARGARET WHITLEY With a Preface by Lady Dilke Methuen & Co. 36 ESSEX STREET, LONDON, W.C. 1894 PREFACE