Index.ToC

Abraham, Report on Employment of Women, 315
Adjustment in progressive industry, 351
Agriculture, 32, 41, 102;
agricultural labour, 333
Andrew, S., Fifty Years' Cotton Trade, 297
Apprentices, statute of, 26
Arkwright, 50, 56
Arlidge, Dr., 252, 255, 320, 336, 337, 379
Art in industry, 371-378
Ashley, Professor, Economic History, 38
Babbage, Economy of Manufactures, 50-51, 236, 249
Baines, History of Cotton Manufacture, 23, 37
Baker, Monopolies and the People, 128, 134, 139, 147
Board of Trade Journal, 241
Balance of trade, 15
Banking, 42
Bertillon, 303
Birtwistle, T., 248
Böhm-Bawerk, Positive Theory of Capital, 101, 196.
Booth, Charles, Labour and Life of the People, 41;
Occupations of the People, 226, 228, 290
Bowley, A.L., England's Foreign Trade, 174
Brassey, Foreign Work and English Wages, 265-266
Brentano, Uber die Ursachen der heutigen Not, 58;
Hours and Wages in Relation to Production, 78, 91, 270
Burnley, Wool and Wool-Combing, 33, 51, 94
Business, evolution of the, 10, 35, 40, 88, 92
Cairnes, J.E., Logical Method of Political Economy, 8;
Some Leading Principles of Political Economy, 211
Canada, town population, 331
Canals, 25
Cannan, E., Production and Consumption, 214;
Decline of Urban Immigration, 327 (note)
Capital, meaning of, 5;
fixed, 40;
growing size of, 92-93;
excessive forms of, 170, etc.;
definitions of, 209-215;
concentration of, 117-122
Capitalism, 4, 40;
factors in growth of, 73-81, 101
Carding, 57
Cartwright, 58, 75
Census, occupations of the people, 71, 228;
town population, 328;
mortality in towns, 334
Chalmers, Estimate, 23
Chartered companies, 18
Child-workers, in domestic industry, 32;
in factory, 297, 307, 319;
legal protection of, 322-323;
child mortality, 337
Climate, 73, 109
Clothier, 39, 40, etc.
Collet, 305, 307, 311, 312
Competition, 104, 108, 118, 120, etc.;
"unfair," 146
Consumption, insufficient quantity, 180, etc;
progressive, 284; quality of, 368
Concentration of industry, 38, 101
Cooke-Taylor, The Modern Factory System, 36, 37, 50, 66, 251-252, 255
Corner, 127, 129
Cotton, 24, 37, 55, 63, 105;
consumption of, 80;
machinery, 90, 247;
statistics, 228;
spinning labour, 246;
factory legislation, 322
Cournot, Recherches sur les Principes Mathématiques de la Theorie des Richesses, 97
Crime in towns, 340
Crompton, 56
Cunningham, History of English Industry, 14, 19, 42, 55;
Uses and Abuses of Money, 236, 251
Custom, in women's industries, 311
Decentralisation, 345
Defoe, Tour, 25, 28, 32, 33, 38, 40
Depression of trade, 171, 206, etc.
Dilke, Lady, 301 (note)
Differentiation, 106
Diminishing returns, law of, 374
Dodd, C.S.T., Ten Years of the Standard Oil Trust, 130, 144
Domestic industry, 35, 69, 78
Dress trades, 293, 294
"Driving," 248, 249
Economy of competitive power, 118;
of high wages, 261-286
Ellison, T., History of the Cotton Trade, 76, 228
Europe, growth of towns, 329
Factor, 41
Factory, 37, 39, 57;
system, 50, 319, 320;
legislation, 321-323
Fairs, 30, 105
Foreign trade, in England, 13, 73;
Europe, 20, 106
Foxwell, H.S., The Claims of Labour, 341
Foundational industries, 102
France, English trade with, 16;
machine-development, 74;
employments, 233;
town population, 328, 335;
treaty, 63
Free trade, 63, 79, 352-354
Gas-tar, 53
Geddes, Professor Patrick, The Evolution of Sex, 379;
The Claims of Labour, 379
Germany, 79;
cotton trade in, 77-78, 81;
town population, 329
Giffen, R., Essays in Finance, 175
Gould, 272, 284
Gunton, G., The Economic and Social Aspect of Trusts, 138, 149, 153;
Wealth and Progress, 271, 309
Guyot, Yves, Principles of Social Economy, 219
Hargreaves, 56
Halifax, 31, 33, 41, 301 (note)
Hearn, Plutology, 211
Hodge, evidence before House of Lords, 57
Holland, trade of, 16, 17, 26;
towns in, 327
Immigration, 19, 326-331
India, 108, 270, 280
Industrial organism, 11, 20, 105
International trade, 14, 75
Invention, "heroic" view of, 57;
by small increments, 58-59
Iron trade, 23, 28, 72, 84;
growth of, 64-66
James, History of Worsted Manufacture, 36
Jenks, J.W., 137, 150
Jevons, W.S., Theory of Political Economy, 185, 209, 373
Joint-stock company, 42, 121, 353
Kay, fly-shuttle, 56
Keynes, Scope and Method of Political Economy, 212
King, Gregory, 22, 72
Labour organisations, 152, 317, 357
Lancashire, 29, 55, 81, 111, 183, 184, 270, 297, 314
Leeds, 31, 41
Levasseur, M.S., La Population Française, 233, 335
Levi, Leone, Work and Pay, 222
Linen manufacture, 24, 63
Lloyd, H.D., 153
Localisation of industry, 109, 111-115
Lombe, 55, 61, 68
Longstaff, Rural Depopulation, 329;
Studies in Statistics, 331
Machinery, place of, in modern industry, 6;
definition of, 45, etc.;
evolution of, 60;
machine-making, 66, 67;
laws of application, 68-70;
relation to trade depression, chap. vii.;
productivity of, 173;
effects on demand for labour, chap. viii.;
effects on character of labour, chap. ix.;
education of, 257;
gain to workers from, 281;
machine-goods, 287;
social control over, 355;
economic limits of, 369;
intellectual, 376
Macpherson, Annals of Commerce, 12, 13, 20, 23, 32
Mackenzie, Introduction to Social Philosophy, 349
Malthus, Principles of Political Economy, 210
Market, 10, 96, 99; towns, 30
Marsden, Cotton Spinning, 297
Marshall, Principles of Economics, 5 (note), 29, 96, 97, 211, 221 (note), 236, 245, 251, 254, 259, 337
Marx, Capital, 45, 46, 66, 244
Middleman, 41
Mill, J.S., Principles of Political Economy, 185, 189-191, 197, 210, 289
Mill, James, Elements of Political Economy, 210
Money, 7, 97, 98
Monopolies, 89, 124, 356;
economic powers of, chap. vi.;
monopoly-prices, 156, etc.;
monopoly wages, 299
Morrison, The Study of Crime, 340
Motor, 45, 66, 67
Mulhall, Dictionary of Statistics, 251
Navigation, risks of, 14;
acts, 17
Newsholm, Vital Statistics, 334
Nicholson, J.S., Effects of Machinery on Wages, 235, 238, 239, 249
Over-consumption, 215-219
Over-production, 169, 171;
economic diagnosis of, 176-190
Over-crowding, 344
Owen, Robert, 263
Parasitic industries, 113
Patten, S.N., Theory of Dynamic Economics, 104, 251, 373;
Premises of Political Economy, 374
Physiocrats, 261
Playfair, Sir L., 53, 170, 173
Population, English, 22, 77;
statistics of, 326-332;
population question, 378
Porter, Progress of the Nation, 62, 63, 77, 105, 129, 226, 250
Portugal, English trade with, 16
Potter, The Co-operative Movement, 129
Power, 38
Price, Bonamy, Practical Political Economy, 211, 215
Prices, fall of, 285;
fluctuations of, 176
Protection, 18, 77, 79
Publicity in business, 353
Railways, comparative statistics, 82, 139, 140, 112, 174, 231, 232, 347
Ravenstein, Statistical Journal, 327
Retail trade, 114, 115, 229;
multiplication of retailers, 288
Ricardo, D., 210
Ring-spinning, 127
Robertson, J.M., Fallacy of Saving, 187
Rogers, Thorold, Political Economy, 211, 236
Ruskin, J., Unto this Last, 199
Russia, 73, 79, 270
Saving, analysis of, 185-190, 198-201
Schoenhof, Economy of High Wages, 81, 275
Schulze-Gaevernitz, Der Grossbetrieb, 24, 29, 54, 55, 70, 76, 78, 81, 108, 111, 247, 250, 267-270, 276;
Zum Socialen Frieden, 91
Scrivener, History of Iron Trade, 28, 52, 64, 74
Secondary industries, 103
Shaftoe, 224
Sheffield, 29
Sherman, R., The Standard Oil Trust, 130, 132
Shipping, 83, 173, 233
Sidgwick, Principles of Political Economy, 185, 211
Silk trade, 23, 55, 61-63, 238, 240
Smart, Dr., Women's Wages, 309, 315
Smith, Adam, Wealth of Nations, 11, 18, 26, 30, 32, 43, 63, 185, 209, 255, 262, 359, 363
Smith, Memoirs of Wool, 12, 24, 35, 41, 262
Socialism, 356-361;
in relation to competition, 364, 365;
in relation to individualism, 370, etc.
Specialisation, local, 28, etc., 33, 93
Spencer, H., Principles of Sociology, 106, 362
Spinning, 56, 57;
statistics of, 79, 268, 269;
ring-spinning, 296, 297
Spinoza, 378
Staffordshire, 29
Standard Oil Trust, 131-137, 144
Statistical Abstract, 90
Steam power, 85, 86
Supply and demand, 68, 162-166;
applied to invention, 59
Sweating 286, 307, 310, 318, 360, 361
Sympathy in trades, 104
Syndicates, 89, 126, 128
Textiles, protected, 17;
domestic industry, 32, 54, 68, 112;
statistics, 228, 296;
wages, 242, 316;
men and women in, 292, 303
Towns, as machine-products, 324, etc.;
growth of town populations, 326-332;
mortality in, 334;
physique in, 336;
intelligence in, 338;
morals in, 339, 340
Toynbee, The Industrial Revolution, 24, 42, 79
Trade unions, 357;
among women, 313, 317
Transport, machinery of, 173, 325;
monopolies in, 139, 140;
cheapening of, 347
Truck, 152, 346
Trust, 126, 141;
definition of, 130, 131;
Standard Oil, 131-137;
conditions of, 139 etc.;
economic power of, chap. vi.
Under-consumption, 182, etc.
Unemployment, 241
United States of America, 75, 76, 81, 91, 93, 130, 140, 141, 172, 231, 269, 274, 275, 296;
colonial policy, 67;
women's wages in, 306 (note), 308, 309;
growth of town life, 330
Ure, History of the Cotton Manufacture, 36, 37, 55, 63, 64, 77, 79;
Philosophy of Manufactures, 258, 262, 263, 274
Wade, Fibre and Fabric, 296
Wages, "natural," 261;
economy of low, 264, 298;
economy of high, 266-275;
women's, 299, etc.
Walker, F., Political Economy, 211
Waste, utilisation of, 52
Watch-making, 94, 96, 301 (note)
Watt, 65, 75
Weaving, 32, 56;
power-loom, 63;
survival of hand weaving, 70, 236;
comparative statistics of, 81, 268, 269;
labour in weaving, 248, 276;
women and children in, 297, 300
Webb, S., Economic Journal, 298, 300
Wells, D.A., Contemporary Review, 91, 171, 173, 254, 296
Women, employment of, 259, 290-321
Woollen trade, 23, 26, 34, 54-57, 61, 73;
report of committee on manufacture 39;
statistics for Great Britain, 90
Working classes, condition of, 289, 379;
legal protection of, 322, 323
Wright, Carroll D., Report on Industrial Depressions, 171, 224
Yeats, The Growth and Vicissitudes of Commerce, 72, 74;
The Golden Gates of Trade, 106, 109
Young, Arthur, Tours, 22, 25, 39, 262, 326