CLOTHING WORKERS OF GB: S P DOBBS:
CONTENTS
page
Author’s Preface… ix
Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Sidney Webb,
LL.B., MP. … xi
chapter
I. Introductory… 1
II. The Clothing Trades… 10
III. The Localization of the Industry… 33
IV. Wage Regulation and the Trade Boards… 83
V. The Wage Level and Methods of Wage Payment… 107
VI. Trade Unions… 125
VII. Employers’ Associations… 146
VIII.… Apprenticeship and the Problem of Recruitment… 161
IX. The Decline of Homework and Sweating. General Review of Conditions in the Industry… 172
Bibliography… 203
Appendix I. Numbers Engaged in the Clothing Trades… 205
Appendix II. Earnings… 207
Appendix III. Methods of Wage-Payment… 209
Appendix IIIa, Example of ‘Log’ Rates… 209
Appendix IV. Methods of Work in the Retail Bespoke Tailoring Trades… 212
Index… 215
Biography
S.P Dobbs Formerly Lecturer in Economics in the Universities of Toronto and Sheffield
