CONTENTS.

INDEX TO SUBJECTS.

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL....

INTRODUCTION......................

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

Hours of Daily Work, Movement of Wages and Time not in

Operation......

V

xxi

xxiii

1-137

3-33

34-111

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

Workingmen's Budgets...........

139-228

141-183

184-213

Chapter 2. The Chemistry and Economy of Foods. Later Re-

search in the Science of Food and Nutrition......................................

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-

operation Elsewhere.........

229-286

231-256

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PART III.—Continued.

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

Jersey Shinplaster Case.......

PART IV.-The Iron Industry.......

Chapter 1. Iron and Zinc Mines......

Chapter 2. Anthracite Blast Furnaces.....

.... 257-286

287-324

289-294

295-302

303-305

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

Sugar Manufactured in New Jersey. The

Rio Grande Sorghum Sugar Works.........................

.... 325-348

.............

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-

sociations. Convict Labor. Crimes and

Misdemeanors...

351-422

INDEX TO SUBJECTS.

Aors of Legislature. See Labor Legislation.
ADOPTION of Children. See Labor Legislation.
AGES of Employes........

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT, U. S., sugar experiments by.
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, sugar bulletin......
AGRICULTURAL LABORERS, collated statistics concerning...
ANIMAL FOODS, composition of. See Foods.
ANTHRACITE BLAST FURNACES.

See Blast Furnaces.

APPRENTICES, number, wages, &c......

APPRENTICESHIP LAWS..

APPENDIX.

ATKINSON, EDWARD, on wages and standard daily ration........

ARBITRATION ACT.......

ARREST, the law of........

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION of Trenton Co-operative Society.

ATWATER, PROF. W. O., on "Foods.".

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...
BEVERAGES, constituents of. See Foods.
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............

.113-137

...329

.330-348

.110, 111

34-144

.378-385, 415

351-422

..142, 146

.352, 353

.260, 261

.256

.184-213

.327

.244

.327

..113-137

.144

.144, 182, 183

.3

.295-302, 324

.295, 297, 298

.299-301

298, 299 ..295

295, 297, 301, 302, 324

.295 ..295, 301, 302, 324

.....296 299

.295, 296–298, 301, 302, 324

.......298, 299

.295, 299–302, 324

Bors. See Wage-Earners, Law and Laborer, and Labor Legislation.

CHILDREN, education and protection of. See Labor Legislation.

See, also, The Law and the Laborer, and Labor Legislation.

CHILDREN'S HOMES........

CLOTHING, Outlay for. See Cost of Living.

COLLATED STATISTICS FROM EMPLOYES..

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

..265

266

...265

....401

....3-183

.274,275

......141-228

.385

French co-operation. See Introduction........

German co-operation

consumers' unions...

people's banks, see.

.243, 244

...231
.249, 250
231-242
.241