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---- (same). Women’s work in tailoring and dressmaking; report of an inquiry conducted by M. H. Irwin. Glasgow. 1900.

SMART, WILLIAM. Women’s wages. Glasgow: James Maclehose. 1892.

STIMSON, F. J. Handbook of the labor laws of the United States. N. Y.: Scribner. 1896.

SWETT, MAUD. Woman’s work; summary of laws in force 1909. N. Y.: Am. assoc. for labor legislation. 1909.

TAYLOR, R. W. COOKE. Factory system and factory acts. N. Y.: Scribner. 1894. (Soc. quest. of to-day.)

Trades for London girls. N. Y. Longmans, Green. 1909. [Describes trades and how to enter them.]

TUCKWELL, GERTRUDE, and others. Women in industry from seven points of view. London: Duckworth. 1908.

United States. 61st Congress, 2d session. Senate document 380. Investigation of telephone companies. Washington. 1910.

---- (same). Census department. Statistics of women at work. Washington. 1900.

---- (same). Commissioner of labor. Labor laws in the various states, territories and District of Columbia; 2d special report, ed. 2. Washington. 1896.

---- (same). Working women in large cities; 4th annual report. 1888. Washington.

VAN VORST, BESSIE and MARIE. The woman who toils. N. Y.: Doubleday, Page. 1903.

VYNNE, NORA, & BLACKBURN, HELEN. Women under the factory acts. London: Williams & Norgate. 1903.

WEBB, BEATRICE. (Editor). The case for the factory acts. London: Richards. 1901.

---- (same). Women and the factory acts. London: Fabian society. (Fabian Tract.)

WEBB, BEATRICE & SIDNEY. Problems of modern industry. N. Y.: Longmans, Green. 1902.

WILLETS, GILSON. Workers of the nation. N. Y.: Dodd, Mead. 1903.

WILLET, M. H. Employment of women in the clothing trade. N. Y.: Columbia university. 1902.

WILSON, MONA. Our industrial laws. Working women in the factories, workshops, shops and laundries and how to help them. London: Duckworth. 1899.

Women’s industrial council. Publications. London. Annual reports, 1892-date. Pamphlets: The case for and against a legal minimum wage for sweated workers, 1909; Home industries of women in London, report of an inquiry by the investigation committee, 1908; Labour laws for women in Australia and New Zealand, 1906; in France, 1907; in Germany, 1907; in Italy, 1908; in the United Kingdom, 1909; in the United States, 1907; Report of the national conference on the unemployment of women dependent on their own earnings, held Oct. 15, 1907; Women’s wages in England in the nineteenth century, 1906; Working women and the poor law, 1909.

Women’s trade union league (National). Convention handbook 1909. Chicago: National women’s trade union league. 1909.

---- (same). Proceedings, second biennial convention. Chicago: National women’s trade union league. 1909.

---- (Boston). History of trade unionism among women in Boston. Boston: Women’s trade union league. 1906.

---- (Chicago). Leaflets. A series for trade union propaganda.

---- (N. Y.) Report of interstate conference 1908. N. Y.: 1908.

The annual reports of the state bureaus of labor, and state factory inspection departments; the bulletins of the U. S. dept. of labor; the economic journals and monthly periodicals contain some of the most important contributions to the literature of women in industry.

FOOTNOTES:

This list makes no attempt at completeness, the aim being to include only the most useful works in the field covered not included in the indices of periodicals.

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