PART I.--Information Concerning Wage-earners.. Table No. 1.-Collated Statistics from Individual Employes, Showing the Number of Hours Employed Daily, Time Lost, Earnings of Self and Family, and Total Expenditures of the Same During the Year, and the Number and Average Weekly Wages of Others Employed in the Subdivisions of Labor........ Table No. 2.-Collated Statistics from Various Industrial Estab- lishments, Showing the Number of Hands Employed-Men, Women and Children-Earnings of the Same, Number of Table No. 3.-Collated Statistics, Showing the Prices Received by Piece-workers, and the Quantity Produced Daily or Weekly; also, the Ages at which Employes Begin to Work, Decline or Become Incapacitated, and the Greatest Age to which they Live, as well as the Diseases Peculiar to the Various Trades.... 112-137 PART II.-The Condition of Wage-earners. Chapter 1. The Cost of Living. Importance of Workingmen's Budgets. Engel's Law of Subsistence. Average Incomes and Expenditures and Expense Details. Comparative Incomes and Expenditures in New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusets, Great Britain and Germany. Rent and Rooms. New Jersey Chapter 3. What the Workingmen Think. Remarks and Sug- gestions in Reply to Questions Nos. 27 and 28, Blank No. 3..... 214-228 PART III.—Suggestions in Behalf of Workingmen...... Chapter 1. The Development of the Co-operative Movement. German People's Banks, Consumers' Unions and Co-operative Societies in Special Branches of Trade. Co-operation in England. The Rochdale Pioneers and Success of Distributive Co-operation. British Co-operative Productive Societies. Co- Chapter 2. The Law and the Laborer. Progressive Labor Leg- islation in New Jersey. The Good Old Days. Slavery. Imprisonment for Debt. Property Exemption Laws. The Legislation of 1851. Child Labor. Education. The Agitation for a Shorter Working Day. Early Labor Troubles and Hos- tile Public Sentiment. The Turn in the Tide. Convict Labor. The Wages Question. Miscellaneous Enactments. Obsolete Laws. Opinion of the United States Circuit Court in the South Chapter 3. Foundries, Sheet Iron and Steel Works........... Chapter 4. General Manufacturers of Iron. Summary.. ........ 306-324 PART V.-The Sugar Industry. Sugar Consumption in the United States. Beet Sugar Production in Europe. Bounty Paid upon Sorghum and APPENDIX.-The Labor Legislation of New Jersey. Laws Relating to the Employment of Labor and Affecting the Interests of Wage-earners in this State. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ar- bitration. Factory Acts. Payment of Wages. Mechanics' Lien Laws. Exemption Laws. Apprenticeship. Education and Protection of Children. Free Public Parks and Libra- ries. Co-operation. Building and Loan As- INDEX TO SUBJECTS. Acrs of Legislature. See Labor Legislation. ADOPTION of Children. See Labor Legislation. AGES of Employes.......... AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT, U. S., sugar experiments by... ATKINSON, EDWARD, on wages and standard daily ration..... ARBITRATION ACT......... ARREST, the law of......... ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION of Trenton Co-operative Society. AUSTRIAN SUGAR PRODUCTION AUSTRALIAN CO-OPERATION........... BANKS. See Law and Laborer, and People's Banks. BEET SUGAR, production of.................... BEGINNING TO WORK, ages of........... BELGIAN WORKINGMEN'S BUDGETS.. BERLINESE WORKINGMEN'S BUDGETS.... BLANK No. 3 FOR EMPLOYES... BLAST FURNACES, anthracite........ Capacity of......... Cost of production of pig iron...... Depressed condition of trade.... First furnace in N. J......... In blast in 1885........ Oxford furnace....... Pig iron, production of from 1874-1885....... Prices of pig iron, comparative...... Railroad mileage............................ Statistics of production... Steel rails, production of... Wages, &c.......... ..295. 296-298, 301, 302, 324 ........298, 299 ..295, 299-302, 324 Bors. See Wage-Earners, Law and Laborer, and Labor Legislation. See, also, The Law and the Laborer, and Labor Legislation. CHILDREN, education and protection of. See Labor Legislation. CHILDREN'S HOMES.......... CLOTHING, Outlay for. See Cost of Living. COLLATED STATISTICS FROM EMPLOYES.......... 265 .264-266 264-266 .265-268, 280 265 266 .265 .401 ......3-183 .274, 275 ......141-228 .385 .276, 277, 414-416 231-256 .256 .250 .244 .252 .231 .244, 245 COMBINATION OF WORKING MEN A CONSPIRACY......... COMPULSORY EDUCATION. See Law and Laborer, and Labor Legislation. CONDITION OF WORKINGMEN. CONSTITUTION (N. J.), regarding free schools......... CONVICT LABOR. See, also, Labor Legislation.. CO OPERATIVE MOVEMENT, the development of the.......... Articles of association for co-operative society, model for Austrian co-operation......... Australian co operation...... Building and loan associations.. Capital, diffusion of, the co-operative ideal... Causes of success and failure of co-operation.. Danish co operation........... English co-operation...... English wholesale....... Expansion of modern industry...... French co-operation. See Introduction.... German co-operation consumers' unions....... people's banks, see. productive co operation.......... co-operative trade societies...... retail stores in..... .250 .231 .249, 250 ..241 .241, 242 .241, 242 Great Britain, co operative production in......... .244, 248 |