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

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